Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Acting to arrest bleeding or hemorrhage.
- noun A hemostatic device or agent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stopping or preventing hemorrhage; styptic.
- noun A medicine designed to stop hemorrhage; a styptic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.
- adjective (Med.) Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.
- adjective Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
hemostasis - adjective That checks
bleeding ;styptic - noun Any medicine that stops bleeding.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Research in 2010 identified and tested chemicals that clot blood, also known as "hemostatic agents."
Wired Top Stories Madhumita Venkataramanan 2011
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Pressure dressings, hemostatic bandages, IVs—the flight medic used every tool and trick to keep him alive until he got to us.
Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010
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Pressure dressings, hemostatic bandages, IVs—the flight medic used every tool and trick to keep him alive until he got to us.
Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010
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Behind that is a deep balfour retractor, which is used on belly cases and in the front are some various hemostatic clamps, probably sponge tips and allises.
These Cakes Are Not Wrecks (But They Play Them on TV) Jen 2009
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He recently helped evaluate QuikClot along with other novel hemostatic agents for military use.
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The high tannin content gives this plant a pharmacological astringent, energetic, healing, hemostatic and antiseptic action, due to the phenolic nature of the tannin.
Chapter 12 1991
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Calcium alginate fibers derived from Laminaria hyperborea have been used to produce wound dressings that are highly absorbent and hemostatic.
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The substitute love may never reach the intensity of the original love, it may never give full or even half-full satisfaction; but it will help to dull the sharp cutting edge, it will act as a partial hemostatic to the bleeding heart, it will soothe and anesthetize the wound even if it cannot completely heal it.
Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson
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In Dr.G. Lammert's "Volksmedizin in Bayern" (Würzburg, 1869), many hemostatic formulas are given, which are popular among the peasantry in various portions of the empire.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence
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The surgeon, who had provided himself with hemostatic preparations, hastened to arrest the hemorrhage.
The Man With The Broken Ear Edmond About 1856
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