band aid
Small wound cover
Band-Aid is a trademark for adhesive bandages—small strips with a gauze pad for covering minor cuts and scrapes.
The generic term band-aid (often lowercased) extends to any quick, temporary fix that addresses symptoms rather than underlying problems: The tax rebate was just a band-aid on a deeper economic crisis.
The implication is superficiality—a band-aid solution won't hold.
- hurtCause or feel pain
- cutSeverance or reduction
- paper cutWound from thin edge
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- woundCoiled, or an injury
plaster · adhesive strip · injury · healing · boo boo · quick fix · temporary fix · sticky · pain · sore · temporary · scrape · skinned knee · Johnson & Johnson · bleeding · finger · help · owie
band aidsurgery
Invasive medical procedure
stitches · reconstructive surgery · sutures · skin graft · surgical intervention
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