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Definition of Dossil
1. n. A small ovoid or cylindrical roil or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent.
Definition of Dossil
1. Noun. (surgery) A small ovoid or cylindrical roll or pledget of lint, for keeping a sore, wound, etc., open; a tent. ¹
2. Noun. (printing) A roll of cloth for wiping off the face of a copperplate, leaving the ink in the engraved lines. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dossil
1. a cloth roll for wiping ink [n -S]
Medical Definition of Dossil
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dossil
Literary usage of Dossil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Medical Gazette (1842)
"A small dossil of lint on placed over the wound,and secured ith a light bandage,
is all that is quired to prevent further bleeding. ..."
2. Johnson's Therapeutic Key by Isaac D. Johnson (1920)
"In dangerous cases, plug posterior nares: Take a cord, say two feet long, tie in
the middle a dossil of Hut or piece of sponge less than an inch in diameter ..."
3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"The fistula may first of all be enlarged by means of a bistoury ; and then kept
open by a dossil of lint, dipped in oil, and pushed along until it comes ..."
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