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Tourniquet
"Tourniquet" in a Sentence (8 examples)
Remove the tourniquet.
He applied a tourniquet before slitting his wrists.
This is a tourniquet.
Taylor says research has shown that compressing the femoral artery is more effective than applying pressure to a leg wound or using a makeshift tourniquet.
A blood-pressure band, or tourniquet, is placed about the arm, and the pressure increased until the forearm becomes cyanosed and the radial pulse is almost obliterated.
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.
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