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Compression Bandages

"Compression Bandages" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Strips of elastic material used to apply pressure to body parts to control EDEMA and aid circulation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Compression Bandages" by people in this website by year, and whether "Compression Bandages" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015
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