tourniquet

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
3. (obsolete) A turnstile.

Verb

To apply a tourniquet bandage.

Sinónimos

compression bandage

hemostat

ligature

Traducións

torniquete

tourniquet

garrot

torniquet

Stauschlauch

torniquete

laccio emostatico

tourniquet

vira-vira

Catraca

Roleta

garrote

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).