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Definition of Styptics
1. styptic [n] - See also: styptic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Styptics
Literary usage of Styptics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compend of Dental Pathology and Dental Medicine: Containing the Most by George Washington Warren (1903)
"styptics are agents which arrest hemorrhage by local application. ... Chemical
styptics coagulate the exuding blood, and at the same time stimulate the ..."
2. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics: In Fifty Lectures. A Text-book by Theodor Billroth (1871)
"Tourniquet.—Acupressure. — Bandaging.—Tampon.—3. styptics. ... The remedies that
cause rapid coagulation of blood, styptics (from ..."
3. Dental materia medica and therapeutics: With Special Reference to the by Hermann Prinz (1917)
"Hemostatics and styptics are agents which arrest the flow of blood from a broken
vessel wall—that is, hemorrhage. At present both terms are used analogously ..."
4. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures by Theodor Billroth (1872)
"Closure of the vessel by tying it—ligation. 2. Compression. 3. The remedies that
cause rapid coagulation of blood, styptics (from ..."
5. Dental materia medica and therapeutics by Hermann Prinz (1909)
"HEMOSTATICS AND styptics. ... and styptics arc agents which arrest the flow of
blood from a broken, vessel wall—that is, hemorrhage. ..."
6. A Textbook of the diseases of women by Henry Jacques Garrigues (1894)
"167 to 169). just spoken, other means of preventing or checking hemorrhage are
available: hot water, styptics, cauterization, ligature, suture, ..."
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