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Tourniquet

//ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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;[…]."

  2. 2
    bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
  4. 4
    A turnstile. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To apply a tourniquet bandage.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

Etymology 2

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

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