Pledget is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PLEDGET in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a pad of absorbent cotton
• a small wad of lint or other soft material used to stop up a wound or an opening in the body.
• small flattened pad of wool, cotton, etc
• A small plug.
• A string of oakum used in calking.
• A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged.

Words related to PLEDGET

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Words that contain PLEDGET

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How to use PLEDGET in a sentence

• Having made the incision, the wound should be wiped free from blood by means of a pledget of cotton-wool previously soaked in a carbolic acid solution and squeezed dry.
• Over each wound is placed a pledget of antiseptic cotton-wool or tow, and the whole lightly covered with a bandage soaked in an antiseptic solution.
• After discharge of the pus, the cavity remaining should be mopped out with an antiseptic solution, and a pledget of antiseptic tow or other material left in position.
• Every day the pledget which remains in the wound is to be drawn towards the most dependent part, so that the dressing in the wound may be daily renewed.
• When the intestinal wound is found to be healed, the entire pledget is to be removed and the unhealed openings dressed as in other simple wounds.
• Then apply a pledget moistened with albumen, a pad and a splint in form of a cross, and over all a long bandage embracing both the arm and the neck and suspending the arm.

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