tourniquet
止血带,止血钳,止血垫,止痛带
Definitions
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- : Medicine/Medical, Surgery. any device for arresting bleeding by forcibly compressing a blood vessel, as a bandage tightened by twisting.
- : a device for pulling the parts of a wooden piece of furniture together, consisting of a pair of twisted cords passed around the parts.
Examples
I woke up as my medic strapped a tourniquet to my leg and turned to my Afghan interpreter to assist with bandages.
All of that provided a perfectly pleasant 5-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Nationals Park, a win that doubled as a tourniquet.
A bystander had placed a belt on his arm to act as a tourniquet.
The tourniquet on the left leg went just above the knee, below which there was nothing but torn flesh and a length of bare bone.
Another Afghan police officer used a towel as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.
An Army officer then used his belt to make a tourniquet on Munley's leg.
On catching him I found that he had somehow severed an artery in his tail, and I had to improvise a tourniquet to stop the flow.
To prevent the flow of blood, a tight bandage known as a tourniquet must be tied between the cut and the heart.
Can such an effect be produced by the sight of that tourniquet of dust, far away over the plain, yet whirling nearer and nearer?
He could not help praising them a little for what they had done with the primitive tourniquet and the styptic agency of the snow.
The pass called "Le Tourniquet" is a better one for a number of coins.