Cotton-wool Sentence Examples

A piece of cotton wool soaked in strong carbolic acid will relieve the pain of dental caries, but is useless in other forms of toothache.

The rule of treatment in all cases of threatened mortification is to keep the part warm by flannel or cotton-wool, but to avoid all methods which unduly hurry the returning circulation.

When, as with some plants like Verbascum, the thick hard stems are liable to cause the leaves to wrinkle in drying by removing the pressure from them, small pieces of bibulous paper or cotton wool may be placed upon the leaves near their point of attachment to the stem.

Yarns, textile goods and weaving industries generally have not attained any great dimensions, but there are large jute-spinning mills and factories for cotton-wool and cotton driving - belts.

The separate determination of the volume and mass of such substances as gunpowder, cotton-wool, soluble substances, &c., supplies the only means of determining their densities.

In medicine boracic acid is used in solution to relieve itching, but its chief use is as a mild antiseptic to impregnate lint or cotton-wool.

Slight ties of soft cotton wool or worsted, or moist raffia, are then applied.

In India farther south in cold weather an overcoat called dagla is worn; this is an anga padded with cotton wool.

The method of lagging the calorimeter with cotton-wool or other non-conductors, which is often recommended, diminishes the loss of heat considerably, but renders it very uncertain and variable, and should never be used in work of precision.

The media are used either in a fluid or solid condition, the latter being obtained by a process of coagulation, or by the addition of a gelatinizing agent, and are placed in glass tubes or flasks plugged with cotton-wool.

The media from the store-flasks are placed in glass test-tubes or small flasks, protected from contamination by cotton-wool plugs, and are sterilized by heat.

Indeed, they must be tempted to wrap the all-rounder in cotton wool.

If your roots are greasy soak some cotton wool in witch hazel, cologne or skin tonic and rub all over scalp.

Apply this product daily to the affected area using cotton wool.

Then I took the cotton wool out of my left ear and put some into my right ear instead.

Leave on for 5 minutes, then rinse off with moistened cotton wool.

You can wipe their ears out with damp cotton wool.

Use wet cotton wool to clean away any discharge on your eyelids or your eyelashes.

If it has been, a probe covered with soft cotton wool is used to gently dry out the ear canal.

After cleaning the eyelids with the cotton wool bud, wash off the shampoo from the eyelids with the cotton wool bud, wash off the shampoo from the eyelids with a flannel or cloth.

To complete the lesson, the pupils discussed why they thought cotton wool was the best sound insulator.

Using the lightly soaked cotton wool apply to the edges of the stain working inwards to the center.

The cotton wool padding layer is the only layer that needs to be renewed at each application.

Apply using cotton wool swab or with spray application.

I used water or baby lotion and cotton wool to clean her bum and a sprinkling of Johnson's baby talc.

Avoid letting cotton wool come in to contact with skin under the blister.

This attitude of smothering kids in cotton wool is just becoming foolish.

Remove the needle and immediately press on with the cotton wool ball to stem bleeding.

I used water or baby lotion and cotton wool to clean her bum and a sprinkling of Johnson 's baby talc.

They look like small tufts of cotton wool leave a waxy mark on the leaf.

Fixed feces can be removed by using ordinary cooking oil on a wad of cotton wool.

If you're worried about a hat stretching out of shape after repeated washings, consider using a cotton blend, such as cotton/acrylic or cotton/wool.