The phrase "a compress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a pad or cloth that is applied to a part of the body to relieve pain or reduce swelling.
Example: "After the injury, I applied a compress to my ankle to help with the swelling."
Alternatives: "a cold pack" or "a hot pack".
Rather than Clorox baths, Sis preferred wiping her lesions every few days with a compress soaked with diluted bleach.
Less than a week earlier Mr. Budden had posted a video online in which he held a compress to his right temple.
'Boy From School', their current single, is a compress of bittersweet pop, but much of the album heads for the dancefloor, as 'Over and Over' attests.
Wasn't until I made it home and Mami put a compress on the knot under my cheek that I figured it out.
These potent, volatile oils are then mixed with a carrier, usually a vegetable oil like soybean or almond oil, or they are diluted with alcohol or water so they can be rubbed on the skin, sprayed in the air, inhaled or applied as a compress, but never consumed.
She would announce the specialty of the day with shy pride at the start of each session: "Today is apple!" and then mix the masque in a blender as I lay relaxing in the dark under the warm steam with a compress over my eyes.
I was trying to write a compressed epic.
This story is a compressed, dramatic expression of that fact.
A compressed PostScript version of the map is also available.
Using this format, a compressing shareware named 'ComZip' is designed.
For this phase, there exist several strategies for the processing at the relay node, e.g., an amplify-and-forward (AF) strategy [5], a decode-and-forward (DF) strategy [5, 14], or a compress-and-forward (CF) strategy [15].
