hemostat

English

two hemostats, one open and one closed

Alternative forms

• haemostat

Etymology

From hemo- +‎ -stat.

Noun

hemostat (plural hemostats)

1. (medicine) An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.

   Hypernym: clamp

   Coordinate term: hemoclip

   • 2014 August 1, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “We gave them fake arms and taught them to hold a scalpel, how to tie sutures, how to hold multiple instruments,” Dr. Burns, the show’s medical adviser, said in a recent interview in his cluttered study, demonstrating the gunslinger reflexes needed to flip a waiting hemostat, a scissor-like tool, off the wrist and seal a broken blood vessel.

Related terms

• hemostasis
• hemostatic

 

Translations

clamp to close blood vessels

• Armenian: սեղմիչ (hy) (seġmičʻ)
• French: pince hémostatique (fr) f, pince de Péan f
• German: Gefäßklemme f
• Icelandic: æðatöng f
• Portuguese: hemostato m
• Swedish: peang (sv) c

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