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/ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/ · noun
(medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb..
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;[…].
[…] 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;[…]
After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.
Use tourniquet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tourniquet means (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb..
Common synonyms include compression bandage.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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;[…].
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