tourniquet

IPA: tɝnɪkɪt

(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.

Examples of "tourniquet" in Sentences

On the soldier's left leg, the tourniquet is above the knee.
The syringe was fashioned from an eyedropper; the tourniquet was a necktie.
The tourniquet is a less manageable and not more certain compressor of the arterial trunk than is the hand of an intelligent assistant.
Before Harvey, many doctors, over several centuries, had the opportunity of confirming how, after the tourniquet has been applied just before
The immediate application of an intermittent tourniquet, that is, one which is relaxed for a moment at a time, so that the poison may gain admission into the circulation in small doses.
Washington now needs to put a short-term tourniquet on the banking industry to stem the damage, and to get back into the business of protecting consumers, employees, and investors from corporate greed.
A tourniquet is a common thing enough -- no more than a band with screw fittings, and there was nothing to show that the tourniquet used was any different from a thousand others; and I can see no particular reason why a doctor should commit a murder like this any more than any other man; in which the divisional surgeon agreed with me.