Taber's Medical Dictionary
compress (1)
(kom′pres″)
[Fr. fr. L. compressare, to squeeze together]
A cloth, wet or dry, folded and applied firmly to a body part.
There's more to see -- the rest of this topic is available only to subscribers.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Compress (1)." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734167/all/compress__1_.
Compress (1). In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734167/all/compress__1_. Accessed December 22, 2024.
Compress (1). (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734167/all/compress__1_
Compress (1) [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 December 22]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734167/all/compress__1_.
* Article titles in AMA citation format should be in sentence-case
TY - ELEC
T1 - compress (1)
ID - 734167
ED - Venes,Donald,
BT - Taber's Medical Dictionary
UR - https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/734167/all/compress__1_
PB - F.A. Davis Company
ET - 24
DB - Nursing Central
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -
