Dress

Dress (medical)

Dress (/drɛs/), in the medical context, refers to the process of cleaning, treating, and covering a wound. The term can also refer to the materials used in this process, such as bandages or dressings.

Etymology

The term "dress" in the medical context originates from the Old French drecier, meaning "to prepare or arrange". This term was later adopted into Middle English as dressen, which has the same meaning.

Related Terms

• Bandage: A piece of material used to support a medical device such as a dressing or splint, or on its own to provide support to or to restrict the movement of a part of the body.
• Wound: A type of injury which happens relatively quickly in which skin is torn, cut, or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound).
• First Aid: The initial assistance or treatment given to a casualty for any injury or sudden illness before the arrival of an ambulance, doctor, or other appropriate qualified persons.
• Sterilization (microbiology): Any process that eliminates, removes, kills, or deactivates all forms of life and other biological agents like fungi, bacteria, viruses, spore forms, prions, unicellular eukaryotic organisms such as Plasmodium, etc. present in a specified region, such as a surface, a volume of fluid, medication, or in a compound such as biological culture media.
• Antiseptic: Antimicrobial substances that are applied to living tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection, sepsis, or putrefaction.

External links

• Medical encyclopedia article on Dress
• Wikipedia's article - Dress

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