(băn′dăj)
[Pronunciation]
[ME. bande, a band]

1. A piece of soft, usually absorbent gauze or other material applied to a limb or other part of the body as a dressing.
2. To cover by wrapping with a piece of gauze or other material.
Bandages are used to hold dressings in place, apply pressure to a part, immobilize a part, obliterate cavities, support an injured area, and check hemorrhages. Types of bandages include roller, triangular, four-tailed, many-tailed (Scultetus), quadrangular, elastic (elastic knit, rubber, synthetic, or combinations of these), adhesive, elastic adhesive, newer cohesive bandages under various proprietary names, impregnated bandages (plaster of Paris, waterglass [silica], starch), and stockinet. Use of a self-adhering, form-fitting roller bandage facilitates bandaging by eliminating the special techniques needed when ordinary gauze roller bandages are used.

Figure: TYPES OF BANDAGES



Figure: TYPES OF BANDAGES




See: sling

Skin-to-skin contact will, if continuous, cause ulceration or infection.

Subentries:
abdomen bandage
Ace bandage
adhesive bandage
amputation-stump bandage
ankle bandage
axilla bandage
back bandage
Barton bandage
breast bandage
butterfly bandage
buttocks bandage
capeline bandage
chest bandage
circular bandage
cohesive bandage
cravat bandage
cravat bandage for clenched fist
cravat elbow bandage
cravat bandage for fracture of clavicle
cravat bandage sling
crucial bandage
demigauntlet bandage
ear bandage
elastic bandage
Esmarch bandage
eye bandage
figure-of-eight bandage
finger bandage
foot bandage
forearm bandage
four-tailed bandage
Fricke's bandage
groin bandage
hand bandage
head bandage
heel bandage
hip bandage
immovable bandage
impregnated bandage
knee bandage
leg bandage
many-tailed bandage
Martin's bandage
neck bandage
oblique bandage
plaster bandage
pressure bandage
protective bandage
quadrangular bandage
recurrent bandage
reversed bandage
roller bandage
rubber bandage
Scultetus bandage
shoulder bandage
spica bandage
spiral bandage
spiral reverse bandage
stellate bandage
suspensory bandage
T bandage
tailed bandage
triangular bandage
Velpeau bandage