a. and sb. Med. [a. F. catagmatique (Cotgr.), f. Gr. κάταγμα, -ατος breakage, fracture, f. κατ-αγνύναι to break, shatter.]
A. adj. Of or belonging to fractures or their medical treatment.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VII. 250. [The stump after amputation] being every day covered with dry thread and a catagmatic Powder.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., V. iii. 361 (J.). I put on a Catagmatick Emplaster.
1704. J. Harris, Lex. Techn., Catagmatick Medicines, are such as are used to help to consolidate Broken Bones.
1881. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
B. quasi-sb. A medicine having the property of healing fractures.
1657. Phys. Dict., Catagmaticks, Medicines to consolidate, or knit together broken bones.
1751. in Chambers, Cycl.; and in mod. Dicts.
So † Catagmatical a. Obs.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 123. Of them that apply Catagmatical Plaisters to all diseases.
