How to pronounce“tourniquet”in English
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Definitions of “tourniquet”
A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
“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;[…].”
Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
To apply a tourniquet bandage.
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