DRAW

v. tr. and intr. Dra4. Gr., Spvetv. Lat., haurire. Fr., tirer. Ger., ziehen. 1. To drag, to attract blood to the surface, to produce rubefaction of the skin or blistering (said of sinapisms, vesicants, etc.); in popular language, to hasten the proce of suppuration (said of poultices and plasters). 2. To withdraw (e. g., urine from the bladder with a catheter). D.-sheet. A sheet folded one or more times in one direction, to be placed under a patient cro wise of the bed, so that a soiled portion of it may be drawn away from under the person without the whole being removed. D.-tube. See under TUBE. [s. 616]