A medical preparation or plaster made with wax, used for external application to the skin.
From Spanish 'cerato,' derived from Latin 'cera' (wax), referring to a wax-based medicinal plaster or paste.
Cerotes were the medieval version of medicated patches—herbalists would mix wax with healing plants to create long-lasting plasters that stuck to skin and released medicine slowly over hours!
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