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noun
1.
Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
2.
a device for pulling the parts of a wooden piece of furniture together, consisting of a pair of twisted cords passed around the parts.
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Tourniquet
is always a great word to know.
So is epidermis. Does it mean:
| the bone of the lower jaw. |
| the outer, nonvascular, nonsensitive layer of the skin, covering the true skin or corium. |
Example Sentences
- The mainliner also requires a tourniquet of some sort to distend veins.
- Her brother made a tourniquet with a length of electrical wire.
- He started my instruction by putting a tourniquet on my arm and having us look together at my veins.
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Word Origin & History
tourniquet
1695, from Fr. tourniquet "surgical tourniquet," also "turnstile," dim. of torner "to turn," from O.Fr. tourner, torner (see turn).
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Medical Dictionary
tourniquet tour·ni·quet (t&oobreve;r'nĭ-kĭt, tûr'-)
n.
A device, typically a tightly encircling bandage, used to check bleeding by temporarily stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
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