WordNet
n. bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure [syn: tourniquet]
Usage examples of "compression bandage".
Justyn had finally stopped the bleeding with a compression bandage, and after liberally dosing the woodcutter with brandy and poppy-powder, began stitching the wound closed with a curved needle and fine silk thread.
I said, and yanked tight the compression bandage I had wound about the injured calf.
Brucco snapped, not looking up from the compression bandage he was tying.
She tied the compression bandage around the wound, then held the ultrasound injector against my forearm.
Right now, as he stood there in the cockpit, his breath was a little short, due to the transparent compression bandage he had wrapped around his torso, immobilizing the ribs he had cracked when he had fallen from the crust-piercer machinery.
He used a compression bandage and bellyband on Dave and administered a shot of something the label said was designed to slow his metabolism.