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单词 plumation
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plumationn.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin plūmāt- , plūmāre , -ion suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin plūmāt-, past participial stem of plūmāre to cover with feathers (see plume v.) + -ion suffix1; compare -ation suffix. Compare post-classical Latin plumatio fledging (of arrows) (1542 in a British source). Compare plumaciol n. and the French and Latin parallels cited at this entry.
Surgery. Obsolete. rare.
A plug or pad of lint or other soft material, made in various shapes, used to apply a medicinal substance or dress a wound; = plumaciol n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > [noun] > application of feather or down
plumation1597
1597 P. Lowe Whole Course Chirurg. vi. i. sig. T Plumations are made of little peeces of cloth, the threads drawen out, or the peeces of cloth themselues, woll, or tow, the pith of the Elder tree, the haires of a hare, gentian. Of these some are round, some triangulars and quadrangulars.
1612 P. Lowe Disc. Whole Art Chyrurgerie (ed. 2) v. xxxv. 206 Sometimes the tumor is so malignant, that..we are constrained to apply actual cauters, or tents, and plumations, what [perh. wet] in oyle of vitreol.
1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell iv. sig. G4v I made him a Quadragular [sic] plumation, where I vsde Sanguis Draconis by my faith, with powders incarnatiue, which I temperd with oyle of Hypericon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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