band

band definition - medical

band (bănd)

noun
  1. An appliance or a part of an apparatus that encircles or binds a part of the body.
  2. A cordlike tissue that connects or that holds bodily structures together.
  3. A chromatically, structurally, or functionally differentiated strip or stripe in or on an organism.

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