tourniquet
UK/ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ//ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/
tourniquet noun: a tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
Noun
tourniquet (plural tourniquets)
- A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- […] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes;[…]1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC
- Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
- A turnstile.
Verb
tourniquet (third-person singular simple present tourniquets, present participle tourniqueting or (rare) tourniquetting, simple past and past participle tourniqueted or (rare) tourniquetted)
- To apply a tourniquet bandage.
tourniquet meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
tourniquet in Tamil
- கால் கட்டு, குருதிப்போக்குத் தடுப்புக் கட்டு, குருதி தடுப்புப் பட்டை, இறுகுகட்டு, கட்டும்பட்டை, குருதியடக்குவடம்
tourniquet in Malayalam
- അതിനുളള ഉപകരണം
tourniquet in Kannada
- ಸುರಿತತಡೆ, ಸುರಿತಕಟ್ಟು
tourniquet in Arabic
- a tightly compressed bandage used to stop bleeding
- عاصِبَة ʕāṣiba
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Forms of tourniquet
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tourniquets |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tourniquets |
| present participle | tourniqueting |
| past participle | tourniqueted |
| past | tourniqueted |
| present participle (rare) | tourniquetting |
| past participle (rare) | tourniquetted |
| past (rare) | tourniquetted |
Origin of tourniquet
From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Questions about tourniquet
- What does tourniquet mean?
- Tourniquet means a tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
- What is tourniquet in Tamil?
- Tourniquet in Tamil is கால் கட்டு, குருதிப்போக்குத் தடுப்புக் கட்டு, குருதி தடுப்புப் பட்டை. See Tourniquet meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is tourniquet?
- Tourniquet can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce tourniquet?
- Tourniquet is pronounced /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tourniquet?
- The plural of tourniquet is tourniquets.
Words near tourniquet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tourniquet (page history and authors); tourniquet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tourniquet (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tourniquet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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