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Definition of Pledgets
1. pledget [n] - See also: pledget
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pledgets
Literary usage of Pledgets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Aseptic Treatment of Wounds by Curt Schimmelbusch (1895)
"The Importance of Asepsis in Absorbing pledgets—The Better Material for Sponging
... It may readily be sterilized and is pressed into pledgets composed of ..."
2. A Textbook of the diseases of women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1894)
"pledgets in the Vagina.—Small rolls of absorbent cotton, about 2J inches long
and 1 inch thick, with a string of strong crochet- yarn fastened round the ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"be thoroughly washed with milk, and cleansed of putrid matter, and then covered
with pledgets saturated with the acid fluid frequently renewed. ..."
4. A Text-book of the Diseases of Women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1897)
"Récamier'8 Curette. cated pledgets in the vagina, the packing of the vagina, the
hemo- static ... pledgets in the Vagina. — Small rolls of absorbent cotton, ..."
5. The Therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics by William Biddle Atkinson (1881)
"pledgets (PINCEAUX.) These are small masses of cotton, charpie, sponge, or other
soft and porous substance, which are moistened with the medicated fluid and ..."
6. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"... with cottonwool pledgets interposed, are seen on the right side of the skull
anteriorly ... pledgets ..."
7. A Guide to the Aseptic Treatment of Wounds by Curt Schimmelbusch (1895)
"The Importance of Asepsis in Absorbing pledgets—The Better Material for Sponging
... It may readily be sterilized and is pressed into pledgets composed of ..."
8. A Textbook of the diseases of women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1894)
"pledgets in the Vagina.—Small rolls of absorbent cotton, about 2J inches long
and 1 inch thick, with a string of strong crochet- yarn fastened round the ..."
9. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"be thoroughly washed with milk, and cleansed of putrid matter, and then covered
with pledgets saturated with the acid fluid frequently renewed. ..."
10. A Text-book of the Diseases of Women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1897)
"Récamier'8 Curette. cated pledgets in the vagina, the packing of the vagina, the
hemo- static ... pledgets in the Vagina. — Small rolls of absorbent cotton, ..."
11. The Therapeutics of gynecology and obstetrics by William Biddle Atkinson (1881)
"pledgets (PINCEAUX.) These are small masses of cotton, charpie, sponge, or other
soft and porous substance, which are moistened with the medicated fluid and ..."
12. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1899)
"... with cottonwool pledgets interposed, are seen on the right side of the skull
anteriorly ... pledgets ..."
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