hemostat en · NOUN
Etymology
From hemo- + -stat.
Meanings
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An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.
“We gave them fake arms and taught them to hold a scalpel, how to tie sutures, how to hold multiple instruments,” Dr. Burns, the show’s medical adviser, said in a recent interview in his cluttered study, demonstrating the gunslinger reflexes needed to flip a waiting hemostat, a scissor-like tool, off the wrist and seal a broken blood vessel.
2014 January 8, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| haemostat | alternative | lexicographic | |
| hemostats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
fr pince hémostatique (clamp to close blood vessels) · de Gefäßklemme (clamp to close blood vessels) · fr pince de Péan (clamp to close blood vessels) · sv peang (clamp to close blood vessels) · pt hemostato (clamp to close blood vessels) · is æðatöng (clamp to close blood vessels) · hy սեղմիչ (clamp to close blood vessels)