Tourniquet

noun

Word Frequency: 0.6

Definitions

1.nounA tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

2.nounAny of several similar methods of clamping components into position.

3.nounA turnstile.

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