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hemostats

hemostats is the plural of hemostat.

Meaning of hemostat

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

Questions about hemostats

What is hemostats the plural of?
Hemostats is the plural of hemostat.

Words near hemostats in the dictionary

  1. hemostasis
  2. hemostat
  3. hemostatic
  4. hemostatically
  5. hemostatics
  6. hemostats
  7. hemostyptic
  8. hemotaxis
  9. hemotherapeutic
  10. hemotherapy
  11. hemothoraces

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