: a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
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Noun
placed a poultice over the infected cut
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Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
The male primate applied a paste made from the poultice plant on his cheek, eventually closing the large wound up, according to research published Thursday at the Scientific Reports journal.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
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Noun
Swallows collect another toxic plant, celandine, to make a poultice for their chicks’ eyes.
—Adrienne Mayor, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2024
The male primate applied a paste made from the poultice plant on his cheek, eventually closing the large wound up, according to research published Thursday at the Scientific Reports journal.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 3 May 2024
Verb
Actually, Sister, in my experience poulticing isn’t much help in these chest cases.
—Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
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“Poultice.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poultice. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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poultice
1 of 2 noun
poul·tice
ˈpōl-təs 
: a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions to supply moist warmth, relieve pain, or act as a counterirritant or antiseptic
called also cataplasm
poultice
2 of 2 transitive verb
poulticed; poulticing
: to apply a poultice to
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