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styp·tic    Audio Help   [stip-tik] Pronunciation Key
–adjective Also, styp·ti·cal.
1.serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
2.serving to check hemorrhage or bleeding, as a drug; hemostatic.
–noun
3.a styptic agent or substance.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < LL stȳpticus < Gk stȳpikós contractile, equiv. to stȳp- (see stypsis) + -tikos -tic]

styp·tic·i·ty    Audio Help   [stip-tis-i-tee] Pronunciation Key, styp·ti·cal·ness, noun
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styp·tic    Audio Help   (stĭp'tĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Contracting the tissues or blood vessels; astringent.
  2. Tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels; hemostatic.

n.   A styptic drug or substance.


[Middle English stiptik, from Old French stiptique, from Latin stȳpticus, from Greek stūptikos, from stūphein, to contract.]

styp·tic'i·ty (-tĭs'ĭ-tē) n.
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styptic 
c.1400, from O.Fr. stiptique, from L. stypticus "astringent," from Gk. styptikos, from styphein "to constrict, draw together." Spelling influenced by L. and Gk. words.

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styptic

adjective
1. tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels 

noun
1. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals [syn: astringent

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Styptic

Stip"tic\, a. & n. (Med.) See Styptic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Styptic

Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to contract.] Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also stiptic.]

Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.
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