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Tourniquet

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Noun

1. compression bandage, tourniquet

bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Tourniquet

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noun
medicine
any instrument or device for temporarily constricting an artery of the arm or leg to control bleeding

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Tourniquet

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noun
any device for compressing a blood vessel to stop bleeding or control the circulation of blood to some part, as a bandage twisted about a limb and released at intervals or a pad pressed down by a screw

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Tourniquet

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n.
A device, typically a tightly encircling bandage, used to check bleeding by temporarily stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

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