Tourniquet
noun
1.
Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
2.
a device for pulling the parts of a wooden piece of furniture together, consisting of a pair of twisted cords passed around the parts.
noun
1.
(med) any instrument or device for temporarily constricting an artery of the arm or leg to control bleeding
tourniquet tour·ni·quet (tur’nĭ-kĭt, tûr’-)
n.
A device, typically a tightly encircling bandage, used to check bleeding by temporarily stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
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