tourniquet
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/, /ˈtɔː.nɪ.keɪ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtʊɚ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtɝ.nɪ.keɪ/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]tourniquet (plural tourniquets)
- (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- 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; […].
- 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →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; […]
- 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 83:
- After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.
- Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
- (obsolete) A turnstile.
Translations
[edit]a tightly compressed bandage used to stop bleeding
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Verb
[edit]tourniquet (third-person singular simple present tourniquets, present participle tourniqueting, simple past and past participle tourniqueted)
- To apply a tourniquet bandage.
Further reading
[edit]- tourniquet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “tourniquet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tourniquet m (plural tourniquets)
- unpowered carousel (playground)
- revolving door or turnstile
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: torniquet
- → English: tourniquet
- → Portuguese: torniquete
- → Russian: турникет (turniket)
- → Spanish: torniquete
- → Turkish: turnike
- → Ukrainian: турніке́т (turnikét)
Further reading
[edit]- “tourniquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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