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Hemostat
noun
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Noun
- 1 An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.
"“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."
- 2 a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel wordnet
Etymology
From hemo- + -stat.
See also for "hemostat"
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