tourniquet

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English

Etymology

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From French tourniquet, from tourner (to turn).

Pronunciation

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Noun

tourniquet (plural tourniquets)

  1. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
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      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; [].
  2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
    • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 83:
      After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.
  3. A turnstile.

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French

Etymology

From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).

Pronunciation

Noun

tourniquet m (plural tourniquets)

  1. unpowered carousel (playground)
  2. revolving door or turnstile

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