compressa — meaning in English
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English meaning
- compress verb To squeeze or press something into a smaller space.
Senses
compressa is used for these senses in English:
- compress (medicine) A multiply folded piece of cloth, a pouch of ice, etc., used to apply to a patient's skin, cover the dressing of wounds, and placed with the aid of a bandage to apply pressure on an injury.
compress — full definition
- verb To squeeze or press something into a smaller space.
- verb (computing) To reduce the size of a digital file by encoding it more efficiently.
- noun A folded pad of cloth, sometimes cold or warmed, pressed against part of the body to relieve pain or swelling.
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