ointment
Other forms: ointments
Ointment is an oily kind of cream that you use to soothe or heal your skin. You might want to apply a bit of ointment to that festering flesh wound on your forehead. Just saying.
Ointment is viscous — in other words, it's somewhere between a solid and a liquid, with a slippery, oily texture. Some medications come in ointment form, while other ointments might be lip balm, a moisturizer for dry skin, or even a cosmetic. The Old French oignement came from the Latin unguentum, from the stem unguere, "to anoint or salve."
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toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skintypes:cold cream, coldcream, face cream, vanishing creama cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skinhand creammoisturizing cream for the handslanolinan emollient containing wool fat (a fatty substance obtained from the wool of sheep)sun blocker, sunblock, sunscreena cream spread on the skin; contains a chemical (as PABA) to filter out ultraviolet light and so protect from sunburntype of:toilet articles, toiletryartifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body)
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semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritationtypes:arnicaan ointment used in treating bruisesbaby oilan ointment for babiesbalsaman ointment containing a fragrant resincarron oilan ointment formerly used to treat burnsceratea hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resinchrism, chrisom, holy oil, sacramental oila consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsamlip balma balm applied to the lipsmentholated salvea salve containing mentholmercurial ointmentan ointment containing mercuryzinc ointmentan ointment containing zinc that is used to treat certain skin diseasescamphor icea cerate made of camphor and wax and spermaceti and castor oiltype of:
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