Crossword-Solution: TOURNIQUET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tourniquet | n. | An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “TOURNIQUET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A bandage tied around a limb to stop the flow of blood through an artery | 1 answer |
| Ambulance bandage | 1 answer |
| CONSTRICTIVE band | 1 answer |
| Compression bandage | 1 answer |
| Device that reduces blood flow | 1 answer |
| Flow stopper, of a sort | 1 answer |
| Hemorrhage-stopping device | 1 answer |
| Twisty bandage | 1 answer |
| A medic might tie one on | 2 answers |
| Stopping device | 4 answers |
| More severe | 7 answers |
| First-aid item | 10 answers |
| Constrictor | 11 answers |
| BANDAGE MATERIAL | 11 answers |
| CUFF ___ | 27 answers |
| Bandage | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZEMAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TOURNIQUET (5)
While in the wood I managed to make a tourniquet of some half-pence and my handkerchief, as well as I could in the dark....But listen, dear Felice! Can you hide me till I am well? Whatever comes, I can be seen in Hintock no more.
Kennicott bending over a body which was humped under a sheet--the surgeon, his bare arms daubed with blood, his hands, in pale-yellow rubber gloves, loosening the tourniquet, his face without emotion save when he threw up his head and clucked at the farmwife, “Hold that light steady just a second more--noch blos esn wenig.” “He speaks a vulgar, common, incorrect German of life and death and birth and the soil.
Otley improvised a tourniquet, passed it to Dunning, and, when the latter had bandaged himself, changed from the observer's to the pilot's seat, plugged the bullet hole in the tank with his thumb and steered the machine home.
CLOUD-SIGN VERSUS CUPID Few men are ever called upon by untoward circumstance to know the sensations caused by rattlesnake bite, knife gashes, impromptu cauterization, and, topping the whole, the peculiar torture of congested veins and swollen muscles which comes from a tourniquet.
DEPARTING PARIS The tourniquet Saint-Jean, the narrow passage entered through a turnstile, a description of which was said to be so wearisome in the study entitled “A Double Life” (Scenes from Private Life), that naive relic of old Paris, has at the present moment no existence except in our said typography.
Quotes with TOURNIQUET (3)
She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.
Rage wrapped itself around her like a tourniquet, keeping her alive even as it condemned a part of her to atrophy.
The evening was a string of miserable minutes strung together in tiny clusters. Three minutes for a man shot through the shoulder; Ellis put first a finger in the entry wound and then another in the exit and when his fingers touched, he decided the man was only lightly injured and didn’t need a surgeon. Three minutes to set a broken wrist and splint it with a strip of cowhide and a piece of wood from a sycamore tree. Two minutes to tourniquet a leg, then extract a piece of wi…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (2001–2022).