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Definition of Tourniquets
1. tourniquet [n] - See also: tourniquet
Medical Definition of Tourniquets
1. Devices for the compression of a blood vessel by application around an extremity to control the circulation and prevent the flow of blood to or from the distal area. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tourniquets
Literary usage of Tourniquets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"These are known as inelastic tourniquets, and when using them it is ...
PROVISIONAL tourniquets. In an emergency when an artery of considerable size has ..."
2. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1864)
"In cases such as these, he advises that the tourniquets should be kept on until
... I proposed the application of tourniquets, which he warmly recommended. ..."
3. Brain Abscess: Its Surgical Pathology and Operative Technic by Wells Phillips Eagleton (1922)
"The process is long and tiresome, but it is the only one that is uniformly attended
with success. tourniquets and Compressors.—When applicable in abscess ..."
4. The Immediate care of the injured by Albert Sidney Morrow (1912)
"Improvised tourniquets made with a handkerchief and stick (Stoney.) the limb and
is twisted around until the tourniquet is tightened and the compress, ..."
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