catagˈmatic, a. and n. Med.
[a. F. catagmatique (Cotgr.), f. Gr. κάταγµα, -ατος breakage, fracture, f. καταγνύναι to break, shatter.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to fractures or their medical treatment.
| 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vii. 250 [The stump after amputation] being every day covered with dry thread and a catagmatic Powder. 16.. Wiseman Surg. (J.), I put on a catagmatick emplaster. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn., Catagmatick Medicines, are such as are used to help to consolidate Broken Bones. 1881 in Syd. Soc. Lex. |
B. quasi-n. A medicine having the property of healing fractures.
| 1657 Phys. Dict., Catagmaticks, medicines to consolidate, or knit together broken bones. 1751 in Chambers Cycl.; and in mod. Dicts. |
So † catagˈmatical, a. Obs.
| 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 123 Of them that apply Catagmatical Plaisters to all diseases. |