butterfly bandage

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Butterfly bandage

A narrow strip of adhesive with wider flaring ends (shaped like butterfly wings) used to hold the edges of a wound together while it heals.

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butterfly bandage

Etymology: AS, buttorfleoge

a narrow adhesive strip with broader winglike ends used to approximate the edges of a superficial wound and to hold the edges together as they heal. It is used in place of a suture in certain cases. Also called butterfly.

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Scars Wounds			This would include 10 percent povidone-iodine, irrigation syringe, antibiotic ointment and athletic tape, gauze pads, adhesive bandages as well as rolled gauze, butterfly bandage, tweezers and iodine medicines for disinfecting water. First Aid Kit Guide by Dave Text / Food/cooking/nutrition community Butterfly bandage types are actually the two common examples as well. Home First Aid Kit A Must Have! by Dave Text / Travel, recreation and leisure community Deadly Friends (Head #3), 2004, depicts a hunk after he's been in some kind of athletic match or testosterone brawl; little butterfly bandages suture his right eyebrow. Patrick Lee: Western Project by Hainley, Bruce / Artforum International			butenafine Butenandt butenyl isothiocyanate Buteo buteo butethamine Butisol Butisol Sodium Butler gag Butler-Albright syndrome butobarbital butobarbitone butoconazole butoconazole nitrate butopyronoxyl butorphanol butorphanol tartrate butt butter butter bean butter stools butter yellow butterbur buttercup buttercup comb butterfat butterfly bandage butterfly dog Butterfly Effect butterfly flag Butterfly Fracture Butterfly Fragment Butterfly Needle Butterfly Pattern butterfly rash Butterfly Vertebra buttermilk butting buttock buttock augmentation Buttock Cell Buttock Lift buttocks Button button grass button hole stenosis button sequestrum button suture button weed buttonhole buttonhole approach buttonhole fracture			butterfishes butterflied butterflied butterflied butterflied butterflied butterflies butterflies butterflies butterflies butterflies butterflies Butterflies and Moths Butterflies and Moths Butterflies and Moths of North America Butterflies In My Stomach butterflies in stomach butterflower butterfly butterfly butterfly butterfly butterfly butterfly butterfly Butterfly (FFT algorithm) Butterfly adder Butterfly Analysis and Review Test Butterfly and Other Invertebrates Club Butterfly ballot butterfly bandage Butterfly Bomb butterfly bush butterfly bush butterfly bush butterfly bushes Butterfly capacitor butterfly catheter butterfly catheter butterfly catheter butterfly catheter butterfly chair Butterfly Cluster Butterfly Cluster butterfly collar butterfly collector Butterfly Common LISP Butterfly Conservation Initiative Butterfly Conservation Northern Ireland butterfly damper butterfly damper Butterfly diagram Butterfly Disease Butterfly Disease Butterfly Disease Butterfly Distribution butterfly dog butterfly effect butterfly effect butterfly effect butterfly effects

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