tourniquet

Definitions

1. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
3. A turnstile.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“His forefathers had been, as a rule⟳, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].”

“[…] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix⟳, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes;[…]”

“After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return⟳.”

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