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Definition: Hemostasis |
HemostasisNoun1. Surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The process which spontaneously arrests the flow of blood from vessels carrying blood under pressure. It is accomplished by contraction of the vessels, adhesion and aggregation of formed blood elements, and the process of blood or plasma coagulation. (references) |
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Synonyms: HemostasisSynonyms: haemostasia (n), haemostasis (n), hemostasia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hemostasis |
| Specialty definitions using "hemostasis": Embolization, Therapeutic ♦ Fibrin Tissue Adhesive ♦ Hemostasis, Endoscopic ♦ Integrins, International Normalized Ratio ♦ Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins ♦ Thrombophilia. (references) |
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Health | Hemostasis may be improved with the use of desmopressin. (references) | |
This modality appears to be effective for immediate hemostasis. (references) | ||
Careful hemostasis is essential and drains are rarely necessary. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hemostasis | 40 |
hemostasis pacific | 5 |
hemostasis and thrombosis | 4 |
coagulation hemostasis | 2 |
hemostasis international society thrombosis | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "hemostasis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | hæmostase (blood stanching, haemostasis, haemostatic function), blodstilling (blood stanching, haemostatic function), blodstandsning (arrest of blood circulation, blood arrest, blood stanching, haemostatic function), blødningsforstyrrelsens sværhedsgrad (blood stanching, haemostatic function, severity of a dsorder of the haemostatic function). (various references) | |
Dutch | haemostasis (blood stanching, haemostatic function), haemostasia (blood stanching, haemostatic function), bloedstollingsfunctie (blood stanching, haemostatic function), bloedstelping (blood stanching, haemostatic function). (various references) | |
French | hémostase, fonction hémostatique. (various references) | |
German | Haemostase (blood stanching, haemostatic function), hämostatische Funktion (blood stanching, haemostatic function), Blutstillung (blood stanching, haemostatic function). (various references) | |
Greek | αιμόσταση (blood stanching, haemostasis, haemostatic function), αιμοστατική λειτουργία (blood stanching, haemostatic function), αυτόματη αιμόσταση (blood stanching, haemostatic function). (various references) | |
Italian | funzione emostatica (blood stanching, haemostatic function). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 止血 (stop bleeding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しけつ (stop bleeding). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emostasishay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | hemostasia (haemostasis), hemostase (blood stanching, haemostasis, haemostatic function). (various references) | |
Spanish | hemostasis (blood stanching, haemostatic function), función hemostática (blood stanching, haemostatic function). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-m-o-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: amitoses, amosites, atheisms, atomises, massiest, messiahs, misseats, mossiest. | |
-3 letters: amosite, ashiest, atheism, atomies, atomise, homiest, hostess, mashies, messiah, miseats, misseat, missets, mitoses, samites, shamois, siestas, smashes, somites, stashes, tamises, tassies, theisms. | |
-4 letters: assets, assist, hastes, heists, hisses, hoises, hoists, hostas, mahoes, maists, mashes, mashie, masses, mioses, misate, miseat, misses, misset, moshes, mosses, saithe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-i-m-o-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: homeostasis. | |
+3 letters: astonishments. | |
+4 letters: histoplasmoses, postmastership. | |
+5 letters: overenthusiasms, postmasterships, schistosomiases, schoolmasterish. | |
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