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• n  (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
• n  a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave

• Seattle policemen wearing protective gauze face masks during influenza epidemic of 1918 which claimed millions of lives worldwide.
• First Aid Quick Stop Gauze Pads Johnson Johnson's sterile gauze pads ($4.
• A baboon-heart transplant inspires both awe and anger Except for the gauze-covered wound stretching almost the length of her torso, the tiny, dark-haired baby girl might.

• gauze bandage
• netting
• veiling

News & Articles

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• Loan to manufacture amazing 'Quickclot'
  The 'Quickclot' gauze going through this cutting machine at the Z-Medica plant in Wallingford could very well save a life in one of the war zones.  
  June 22, 2013 - WTNH-TV New Haven
• Mich. woman ordered to trial on false rape report
  PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan woman accused of faking a sexual assault was ordered to stand trial on charges of making a false report of rape and tampering with evidence Tuesday after a doctor said her purported bruises faded after he wiped them with gauze.
  June 19, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Woman ordered to trial on false rape report
  Police/Fire Woman ordered to trial on false rape report A Michigan woman accused of faking a sexual assault was ordered to stand trial on charges of making a false report of rape and tampering with evidence after a doctor said her purported bruises faded after he wiped them with gauze. AP Wire Port Huron Jun 19, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-ght300x250 ...
  June 19, 2013 - Grand Haven Tribune

Quotes

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• Roger Ebert in Reuters Canada
  When I turn up in Urbana, I will be wearing a gauze bandage around my neck, and my mouth will be seen to droop. So it goes,Ebert wrote.
• Janet Jackson in San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
  In an interview on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Jackson, 43, says, "When I was younger on 'Good Times,' I was asked to lose weight. I wasn't a heavy kid on the show but I was 10 years old and developing very quickly so they would put gauze...
• Camille Paglia in Boston Globe (registration)
  As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is,Paglia writes, "and, quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma."