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hemostat

hemostat noun: an instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.

hemostat: an instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow
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Noun

hemostat (plural hemostats)

  1. 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...2014 January 8, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count”, in The New York Times

Forms of hemostat

pluralhemostats
alternative formhaemostat

Origin of hemostat

From hemo- + -stat.

Words formed from hemostat

Questions about hemostat

What does hemostat mean?
Hemostat means an instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.
What part of speech is hemostat?
Hemostat is a noun.
What is the plural of hemostat?
The plural of hemostat is hemostats.

Words near hemostat in the dictionary

  1. hemostaseological
  2. hemostaseology
  3. hemostases
  4. hemostasia
  5. hemostasis
  6. hemostat
  7. hemostatic
  8. hemostatically
  9. hemostatics
  10. hemostats
  11. hemostyptic

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