emplastic
/ɪmˈplastɪk/ /ɛmˈplastɪk/Chiefly Medicine
adjective
Having the property of being adhesive or glutinous; designating this property. Now rare.
Origin
Late Middle English; earliest use found in Guy de Chauliac's Grande Chirurgie. From post-classical Latin emplasticus (also implasticus) causing to adhere from Hellenistic Greek ἐμπλαστικός causing to adhere from ancient Greek ἐμπλαστός daubed on or over + -ικός.
- white bread
- white-breasted
- white-breasted nuthatch
- white brick
- white bronze
- white broom
- white broth
- white-browed
- white-browed partridge
- white bryony
- white-burning
- White, Byron Raymond
- white cabbage
- white campion
- white canon
- whitecap
- white-capped
- whitecapping
- white cedar
- white cell
- Whitechapel cart
- Whitechapel needle
- Whitechapel play
- Whitechapel shave
- white chauvinism