Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An agent, such as a chemical, that stops bleeding.
- noun A clamplike instrument used to compress a blood vessel in order to reduce or arrest the flow of blood during surgery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument used to compress a bleeding vessel in order to arrest hemorrhage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine an instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a surgical instrument that stops bleeding by clamping the blood vessel
Etymologies
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Examples
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He used a hemostat to gather up the bloodied finger and dropped it into an evidence bag, which he quickly closed, but isolating the finger did little to diminish the odor.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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He used a hemostat to gather up the bloodied finger and dropped it into an evidence bag, which he quickly closed, but isolating the finger did little to diminish the odor.
Fatal Error J.A. Jance 2011
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The first came from a precocious 12-year-old boy at a fishing show in Long Beach, Calif., who proved he could do the same knot as Kreh in about a 10th of the time, and the last two came from a doctor, who taught Kreh how to quickly tie two common fishing knots with a hemostat.
The Big Catch: Fly-fishing guru 'Lefty' Kreh of Maryland is still making a splash 2010
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Bishop asked one of the medical techs, a woman whose jacket was adorned with a stethoscope and hemostat clamps.
Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010
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The huge moose heart intruded on her recitations of hemostat placements and incision angles, and she turned to look.
Casualty Cortney McLellan 2010
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Nope, no kellys, no needle holders, and not even a hemostat.
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I'd like to see some examples of how he's functioned under pressure, besides, "pass the hemostat."
Printing: Electing a Leader For President; What Leader Traits Do YOU See? 2007
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I'd like to see some examples of how he's functioned under pressure, besides, "pass the hemostat."
Electing a Leader For President; What Leader Traits Do YOU See? 2007
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You're eating lunch in the cafeteria, wearing your scrubs, your high-tech stethoscope around your neck, a hemostat clipped onto you somewhere, tourniquets tied onto it.
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Earl passed a treatment room off ER where another youthful trainee, this one masked and gloved, frowned mightily as he wielded a suture and hemostat over a child's lacerated cheek.
Mortal Remains Clement, Peter, M.D 2003
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