hemostat
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edithemostat (plural hemostats)
- (medicine) An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.
- 2014 August 1, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count”, in The New York Times[1]:
- “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, off the wrist and seal a broken blood vessel.
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editclamp to close blood vessels
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References
edit- ^ “hemo-”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.