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Compression bandage
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tourniquet
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" Tourniquet " is the second major-label single by the band Marilyn Manson , from the second studio album Antichrist Superstar . The image this song conveys is that of the main character in a world of sorrow and self-pity, prior to his transformation into ...
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n. 1 A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb. 2 Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position. 3 A turnstile.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure [syn: compression bandage ]
Usage examples of tourniquet.
No artery was spurting, but Yossarian pretended to absorb himself entirely into the fashioning of a tourniquet, because applying a tourniquet was something he did know how to do.
He recovered possession of himself before the tourniquet was finished and loosened it immediately to lessen the danger of gangrene.
Had she not been disoriented by his sudden appearance and his wound, she would have thought to grab a new dress as a tourniquet, instead of baring her body.
I trailed behind him, still holding the tourniquet, trying to remember what to do next.
I found the arteries by having Lambert loosen the tourniquet and seeing what squirted.
The blind man trembled, his arm twitched, and he moaned softly when Tarrant tied the tourniquet on the left arm to bring up a vein.
Tarrant released the tourniquet, jerked out the syringe and stumbled back, landing on his butt.
I tore the sleeve from my tunic and used it as a temporary tourniquet over the jagged stump.
A silk scarf was tightened like a tourniquet around her windpipe, crimson with blood.
Without even waiting for his answer, she made a 72 63 hasty tourniquet with her handkerchief and a stick and twisted it tightly around the bleeding toe.
As Trixie nodded, he removed the tourniquet and took out his hypodermic syringe.
They come equipped with a scalpel, suction pump, and tourniquet, you know.
She tries to yank her arm back, but the sudden motion only snaps the tourniquet into her flesh.
He said he had loosened the tourniquet applied by the furniture van man, which had been on for more than fifteen minutes.
We just stuffed a rag into the leg hole, but we had to use a tourniquet on the arm to stop the bleeding.