hemostat
nounEtymology From hemo- + -stat.
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Medicine, Sciences 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:
- Derived terms
- microhemostat
- Related terms
- hemostasis, hemostatic