n.
1.
Subject, theme, thesis, question, point, matter, subject-matter, matter in hand.
2.
Head, division, subdivision.
3.
Commonplace ( of argument or oratory ), general truth, general idea, maxim, dictum, rule, precept, principle, general statement.
4.
Scheme, arrangement, method of arrangement, principle of arrangement.
5.
( Med. ) External local remedy, plaster, blister, poultice, vesicatory, epispastic.