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tourniquet
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Word definitions for tourniquet in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tourniquet \Tour"ni*quet\, n. [F., fr. tourner to turn.] (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.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tourniquet is a constricting or compressing device, specifically a bandage, used to control venous and arterial circulation to an extremity for a period of time. Pressure is applied circumferentially upon the skin and underlying tissues of a limb; this ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from French tourniquet "surgical tourniquet," also "turnstile" (16c.), diminutive of torner "to turn," from Old French torner (see turn (v.)).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anne unknotted the rubber tubing from her arm, and pulled the tourniquet loose. ▪ Efficient emergency treatment relies upon being able to stem the blood loss with a tourniquet around the foot. ▪ Her right arm had gone to sleep ...
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.