adhesive bandage
Also known as band-aid, band aid, bandaid, plaster, bandage, sticking plaster
small, self-adhesive medical dressing used to cover minor skin injuries
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Typical adhesive bandage Reverse of an adhesive bandage, showing backing Opened adhesive bandage, showing the non-adhesive absorbent pad, adhesive area (colored) and backing (peeled back)
An adhesive bandage, also called a sticking plaster, sticky plaster, medical plaster, or simply plaster in British English, is a small medical dressing used for injuries not serious enough to require a full-size bandage. They are also known by the genericized trademarks of Band-Aid (as "band-aid" or "band aid" in Australia, Canada, India and the US) or Elastoplast (in the UK).