lint

lint
A soft, absorbent material rarely used in surgical dressings, usually in the form of a thick, loosely woven material (sheet or patent l.). [O.E. lin, flax]

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lint 'lint n
1) a soft fleecy material used for poultices and dressings for wounds and made from linen usu. by scraping
2) Brit sterile cotton cloth used for dressings

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n.
a material used in surgical dressings, made of scraped linen or a cotton substitute. It is usually fluffy one side and smooth the other.

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(lint) [L. linteum, from linum, flax] an absorbent surgical dressing material once made by scraping or picking apart old woven linen, but now a specially finished fabric woven in sheets; called also patent l. or sheet l.

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