Meaning

3 senses

  1. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

    Tourniquet, Aderpresse, Stauschlauch

    жгутžgut

    джгутdžhut

    bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure

  2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.

  3. (obsolete)A turnstile.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. He applied a tourniquet before slitting his wrists.

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  2. There are tourniquets in the first aid kit.

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  3. This is a tourniquet.

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  4. Remove the tourniquet.

    deNehmen Sie den Stauschlauch ab. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a tightly compressed bandage used to stop bleeding:
Русский
By meaning 1
a tightly compressed bandage used to stop bleeding:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a tightly compressed bandage used to stop bleeding:

Origin

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

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Forms

plural: tourniquets
Singulartourniquet
Pluraltourniquets

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
touristA2touristytournamentB1tousletout
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