tourniquet

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

compression bandage

hemostat

ligature

Translations

torniquete

tourniquet

garrot

torniquet

Stauschlauch

torniquete

laccio emostatico

tourniquet

vira-vira

Catraca

Roleta

garrote

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/

Etymology

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