tourniquet
English
Etymology
From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
tourniquet (plural tourniquets)
- 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; […].
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- 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.
- A turnstile.
Translations
a tightly compressed bandage used to stop bleeding
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French
Etymology
From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).
Pronunciation
Noun
tourniquet m (plural tourniquets)
- unpowered carousel (playground)
- revolving door or turnstile
Further reading
- “tourniquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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