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tourniquets

tourniquets is the plural of tourniquet.

tourniquets is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tourniquet.

Meaning of tourniquet

Noun

tourniquet (plural tourniquets)

  1. 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
  2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
  3. (obsolete) A turnstile.

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Questions about tourniquets

What is tourniquets the plural of?
Tourniquets is the plural of tourniquet.

Words near tourniquets in the dictionary

  1. tourneys
  2. tournies
  3. tourniquet
  4. tourniqueted
  5. tourniqueting
  6. tourniquets
  7. tourniquetted
  8. tourniquetting
  9. tourns
  10. tournsol
  11. tournure

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