Tourniquet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tourniquet is a noun meaning (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
Meaning
(medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
More Meanings
- Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
- To apply a tourniquet bandage.
- (obsolete) A turnstile.
Example Sentences
After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.
[…] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes;[…]
His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].
Word Forms
- tourniquets
- tourniqueting
- tourniquetting
- tourniqueted
- tourniquetted
Related Words
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