attributive, as in cering-candle, cering-cloth.

Smeared, anointed, saturated, or rendered waterproof, with wax, esp. in cered cloth: = cerecloth, n.

used as a plaster in surgery; a cerate, n.

Something which affords protection; spec. (a) Medicine a medicinal agent or dressing applied to the skin (now rare); (b) a condom.

Any of various substances obtained by the oxidation of cellulose, some of which are used in medical gauze and lint.

a gauze rendered antiseptic by impregnation with a cyanide, used in dressing wounds.

a gauze dressing for the skin impregnated with petroleum jelly.

a thin sheet of fibrin mixed with a plasticizing agent and used mainly in neurosurgery and to treat burns.