emplastron

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron, “daub, salve”)

Noun

emplastron (plural emplastra)

1. (medicine, archaic) A plaster.
   • 1851, Monthly Journal of Medical Science, volume 12, page 49:

     In his observations, however, upon the different forms of emplastra (and many of which were named Melina), Galen gives a sufficient explanation of the origin of this term as it was applied to plasters; […]

   • 1946, Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, volume 35, page 199:

     He did, however, use an emplastron on a Negro boy, set a broken jaw for a Negro mand and made an examination per vaginum on a Negro woman.