Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A turnstile.
- noun An instrument for arresting the passage of blood through an artery by means of compression effected with a screw. It is used to control hemorrhage temporarily, as in surgical operations on a limb, or to check the force of the blood-current in cases of aneurismal or other vascular tumors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A tightly-
compressed bandage used to stopbleeding by stopping theflow ofblood through a largeartery in alimb . - noun Any of several similar methods of
clamping components into position. - noun A
turnstile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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On the soldier's left leg, the tourniquet is above the knee.
Military medics combine ultramodern and time-honored methods to save lives on the battlefield David Brown 2010
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On the soldier's left leg, the tourniquet is above the knee.
The front lines of saving lives David Brown 2010
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On the soldier's left leg, the tourniquet is above the knee.
Military medics combine ultramodern and time-honored methods to save lives on the battlefield David Brown 2010
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Washington now needs to put a short-term tourniquet on the banking industry to stem the damage, and to get back into the business of protecting consumers, employees, and investors from corporate greed.
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The syringe was fashioned from an eyedropper; the tourniquet was a necktie.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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The syringe was fashioned from an eyedropper; the tourniquet was a necktie.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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Before Harvey, many doctors, over several centuries, had the opportunity of confirming how, after the tourniquet has been applied just before
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The immediate application of an intermittent tourniquet, that is, one which is relaxed for a moment at a time, so that the poison may gain admission into the circulation in small doses.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 Various
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The tourniquet is a less manageable and not more certain compressor of the arterial trunk than is the hand of an intelligent assistant.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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A tourniquet is a common thing enough -- no more than a band with screw fittings, and there was nothing to show that the tourniquet used was any different from a thousand others; and I can see no particular reason why a doctor should commit a murder like this any more than any other man; in which the divisional surgeon agreed with me.
The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
mkluver1 commented on the word tourniquet
My father thinks he is so funny and the first time I have ever heard this word i did know what it was just never knew what it was called and I cut my arm one day and i'm very dramatic my father said "ooo I think we need to tie a tourniquet around your arm."
October 1, 2010