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tourniquet

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nounverb
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As a noun, tourniquet means a tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb. As a verb, it means apply a tourniquet bandage.

Meanings of tourniquet

5 meanings

noun

  1. medicineA tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

  2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.

  3. Bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure

    Similar: compression bandage
Older and rare meanings (1)

  1. obsoleteA turnstile.

verb

  1. To apply a tourniquet bandage.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by ap…
compression bandage

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