Definition of Cataplastic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to cataplasia.

Partainyms: Cataplasia
Derivative terms: Cataplasia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataplastic

cataphoreses
cataphoresis
cataphoretic
cataphoric
cataphract
cataphractic
cataphracts
cataphyll
cataphyllary leave
cataphylls
cataphysical
cataplasia
cataplasm
cataplasms
cataplastic (current term)
cataplectic
catapleiite
cataplexies
cataplexy
catapuce
catapult
catapulted
catapulter
catapulters
catapultian
catapultic
catapultier
catapultiers
catapulting

Literary usage of Cataplastic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"In the wombat the asymmetric Treves' third and fourth types of cecum are regarded as stages in a cataplastic process which led to atrophy, first, ..."

2. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"cataplastic hypertrophy is an abnormal increase in the volume of cells associated with degenerative atrophy of their living contents, for the functional ..."

3. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"This "science of rudimentary, abortive, arrested, distorted, atrophied, and cataplastic individuals" is based on an immense quantity of remarkable phenomena ..."

4. Hints and Reflections for Railway Travellers and Others, Or, A Journey to by Luke James Hansard (1843)
"... blistering, and the cataplastic system; but seriously to enquire what would be the effect of associating themselves, and unitedly applying natural means ..."

5. The Teleo-mechanics of Nature: Or, The Source, Nature and Functions of the by Hermann Wettstein (1911)
"... abortive, distorted, atrophied and cataplastic individuals is based on an immense quantity of remarkable phenomena which were long familiar to ..."

6. Dictionary of Botanical Equivalents, French-English, German-English by Ernst Artschwager, Edwina Maria Smiley (1921)
"Dipsacaceae potato potato scab mallow, Malva sylvestris Malvaceae chestnut, Castanea bract hypertrophy which is not due to overnutrition cataplastic gall ..."

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