cappeline
English
Etymology
From French [Term?], from Latin capella. See chapel.
Noun
cappeline (plural cappelines)
- (medicine) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cappeline in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)