tourniquet
IPA: tɝnɪkɪt
noun
- (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
- Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
- (obsolete) A turnstile.
verb
- To apply a tourniquet bandage.
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Examples of "tourniquet" in Sentences
- The use of a tourniquet is dangerous.
- It is also called the Tourniquet test.
- The doctor put tourniquet on the patient's arm.
- The thing on the bicep is a tourniquet not tape.
- It is stated as the recommended prehospital tourniquet.
- The other mistake is the incorrect use of a tourniquet.
- In addition, it highlights specifically the CAT tourniquet.
- The tourniquet should then be taken off and the plunger gently pushed.
- Soldiers are also trained in proper self application of the tourniquet.
- That is what is happening on the tourniquet and emergency tourniquet pages.
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