Hemostat

Quick meaning: Hemostat is a noun meaning (medicine) An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.

Meaning

(medicine) An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.

Example Sentences

“We gave them fake arms and taught them to hold a scalpel, how to tie sutures, how to hold multiple instruments,” Dr. Burns, the show’s medical adviser, said in a recent interview in his cluttered study, demonstrating the gunslinger reflexes needed to flip a waiting hemostat, a scissor-like tool, off the wrist and seal a broken blood vessel.

Word Forms

• hemostats

Synonyms for hemostat

Depending on context, synonyms include haemostat.

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