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Definition of Hemostasis
1. Noun. Surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat).
Group relationships: Operation, Surgery, Surgical Operation, Surgical Procedure, Surgical Process
Generic synonyms: Stop, Stoppage
Derivative terms: Hemostatic
Definition of Hemostasis
1. Noun. (medicine countable uncountable) The process of keeping blood inside a damaged vessel to stop bleeding. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hemostasis
1. [n -STASES]
Medical Definition of Hemostasis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemostasis
Literary usage of Hemostasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1900)
"FROM the time the immortal Ephraim McDowell made the operation which marked the
birth of ovarian surgery to the present the question of hemostasis has been ..."
2. A Textbook of Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1901)
"hemostasis.—Control of hemorrhage was one of the most perplexing problems in the
early development of gynecologic surgery. The earlier mortality tables ..."
3. Surgical Operations: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners by Friedrich Pels-Leusder (1912)
"This is obtained in many cases by means of Temporary hemostasis, ie, Operating
in a Bloodless Field This temporary hemostasis may be obtained by: 1. ..."
4. Gynecological Operations: Including Non-operative Treatment and Minor Gynecology by Henri Albert Charles Antoine Hartmann, Douglas William Sibbald (1913)
"This procedure owes its introduction to Doyen and reposes on the rejection of
all preventive hemostasis; it is carried out in the following manner: The ..."
5. Local and Regional Anesthesia: With Chapters on Spinal, Epidural by Carroll Woolsey Allen (1920)
"hemostasis AND CLOSURE OF WOUNDS The closure of any operative wound made under
local anesthesia where adrenalin is a constituent of the solutions used calls ..."
6. Diseases of Women: Medical and Surgical Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1913)
"PROCEDURES (DIVERSE) FOR hemostasis OF RUPTURED KIDNEY Minor excisions of kidney
substance may be all that are required. ..."
7. Thyroid and Thymus by André Crotti (1922)
"hemostasis. — Hemorrhages were for a long time a feared complication of goiter
operation. With our present anatomical and technical knowledge, however, ..."
8. A Manual of the Diagnosis and Treatment of the Diseases of the Eye by Edward Jackson (1907)
"hemostasis. In ophthalmic operations and for wounds about the eye, it is rarely
needful to ligate bleeding vessels. ..."
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