styptic

/stip-tik/US // ˈstɪp tɪk //UK // (ˈstɪptɪk) //

测温剂,测温仪,测温计,测光仪

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
Also styp·ti·cal.
- : serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
- : serving to check hemorrhage or bleeding, as a drug; hemostatic.

n.名词 noun

We shall put it to rights in a moment, with one drop of styptic—my styptic, or rather my wife's, sir—She makes the water herself.
It is powerfully styptic and astringent; and is used chiefly as an external application in cancer.
Its styptic properties are undoubtedly due to tannic acid, as all the tests I have been able to make prove this to be the case.
Tobacco leaves were used as a styptic by the Indians of Brazil in the sixteenth century.
The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.