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Haemostat

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A clamp used in surgery to close the severed end of a blood vessel to stop bleeding. UK
  2. 2
    a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel wordnet

Etymology

From haemo- + -stat.

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