Definition of Haemostasia

1. Noun. Surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat).

Exact synonyms: Haemostasis, Hemostasia, Hemostasis
Group relationships: Operation, Surgery, Surgical Operation, Surgical Procedure, Surgical Process
Generic synonyms: Stop, Stoppage
Derivative terms: Hemostatic

Medical Definition of Haemostasia

1. The arrest of bleeding, either by the physiological properties of vasoconstriction and coagulation or by surgical means. Origin: Gr. Stasis = halt This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haemostasia

haemosalpinx
haemoscope
haemoscopes
haemosialemesis
haemosiderin
haemosiderosis
haemosiderosis / haemochromatosis
haemosporidian
haemosporidium
haemosporina
haemosporines
haemostases
haemostasia (current term)
haemostasis
haemostat
haemostatic
haemostatic collodion
haemostatic forceps
haemostatic techniques
haemostatics
haemostats
haemostyptic
haemosuccus pancreaticus
haemotachogram
haemotachometer
haemotachometers
haemotachometry

Literary usage of Haemostasia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and practice of gynecology: For Students and Practitioners by Emilius Clark Dudley (1904)
"... then be closed as the conditions may require, with or without the gauze drain. See Chapter VII., on Drainage. Vaginal Hysterectomy with haemostasia by ..."

2. Diseases of Man: Data of Their Nomenclature, Classification & Genesis by John William Severin Gouley (1888)
"But some of them are used in different senses, as for instance haemostasia which> besides signifying stagnation of blood, is made to do duty in designating ..."

3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"Saine as haemostasia. Haemostatic. (A/ua, blood ; orai-ixi», relating to a standstill. F. hémostatique; G. blutstillend.') Having the power or property of ..."

4. The Purin bodies of food stuffs and the rôle of uric acid in health and disease by Isaac Walker Hall (1904)
"Liver; haemostasia. Kidneys: cortex very pale, little distinction between the two zones. ... Liver: haemostasia. Kidneys : same as No. 1. Marrow : pale. ..."

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