Bandage
A
bandage is a piece of material used to support a medical device such as a
dressing or
splint. Other than an
adhesive bandage, tape in its many varieties is probably the most commonly used bandage, but bandages can and often are improvised as needed.
In common speech, the word "bandage" is often used to mean a dressing, though technically the two are different things.
A compression bandage is a kind of bandage designed to reduce the flow of
blood to a particular area of the body by applying pressure there.
Bandages is also a song by the
Canadian alternative rock group
Hot Hot Heat.
