1. A medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
   "The healer applied a warm poultice to soothe the patient's sore muscles";
   - cataplasm [archaic], plaster

1. (medicine) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
   "The doctor poulticed the wound to draw out the infection";
   - plaster

Derived forms: poulticing, poultices, poulticed

Type of: dress, dressing, medical dressing

Encyclopedia: Poultice