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Definition: Tourniquet |
TourniquetNoun1. Bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tourniquet" was first used: 1695. (references) |
Etymology: Tourniquet \Tour"ni*quet\, noun. [French expression, from tourner to turn.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Apparatus on which bottles of sparkling wine are placed after disgorging to prevent loss of gas and wine while they are waiting to be liqueured and corked. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | A device, band or elastic tube applied temporarily to press upon an artery to stop bleeding ; a device to compress a blood vessel in order to stop bleeding. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Note: Wikipedia does not give medical advice. If you or someone else needs medical assistance, seek expert help.A tourniquet is a tightly tied band applied around a body part (an arm or a leg) in an attempt to stop severe bleeding or uncontrolled hemmorhage.
Most first aid instruction no longer teaches the use of the tourniquet because it is extremely dangerous to limb and life. An incorrectly applied tourniquet can unnecessarily cripple and even kill. The best advice to stop bleeding is to apply pressure to the wound.
Tourniquets are not used to treat snakebite; a constrictive band intended to slow the spread of poison through the lymphatic system in a snakebite victim should be fairly loose compared to a tourniquet.
Even in cases of amputation, most bleeding can be controlled through direct pressure, elevation (above the heart) and the use of pressure points. The rare exception is when a limb is shattered by massive trauma or a major blood vessel is torn along its length. Even in these cases, the use of a hemostat to clamp the vessel above the tear is strongly preferred.
To properly apply a tourniquet, a piece of rubber tubing is wrapped around the limb and tied tightly. A stick is wound underneath the tubing and twisted until the tubing is tightened so that the bleeding is stopped. Do not tighten the tubing more tightly than is required to stop the bleeding. Tie the stick in its present position with additional tubing or bandages.
In an emergency, items that can be used for a tourniquet include a belt, rope, string, wire, twine, or even a piece of clothing. These improvised tourniquets have saved many lives, especially on the battlefield.
If a tourniquet is used, immediately mark the letter "T" on the casualty's forehead with a marker, pen, blood or dirt. If possible write the date and 24-hour time the tourniquet was applied. (Example: "8/7 2215") When transferring the patient to another person's care, be certain that receiving medical personnel know that a tourniquet has been applied.
Never loosen a tourniquet in the field. Toxins are likely to have built up in the dead tissue below the tourniquet, and loosening the tourniquet may cause immediate shock and kill the patient. When a tourniquet is used, the injured limb must generally be amputated just below the level the tourniquet is applied. This is "losing a limb to save a life" and is a decision that should be made by a paramedic or preferably a doctor if at all possible.
The use of tourniquets is taught to emergency medical technicians including combat lifesavers, and as a part of military first aid in basic training.
In wilderness first aid, it is imperative that any person with a tourniquet be evacuated to advanced medical care as soon as reasonably possible; MEDEVAC is indicated if transport will be delayed more than twenty-four hours.
In triage, a person with a tourniquet should be considered "I" for immediate in the START protocol and at least "Yellow" or higher in other protocols.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tourniquet."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TOURNIQUET | Greek | στροφείο | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: TourniquetSynonym: compression bandage (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stopper | Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tourniquet |
| Specialty definitions using "tourniquet": crymo-anesthesia ♦ isolated limb perfusion ♦ limb perfusion ♦ refrigeration anesthesia. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tourniquet" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (stile, tourniquet, turnstile). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I know that if a man has a compound fracture and a headache, you put on a tourniquet before you give him an aspirin (Wake Me When It's Over; writing credit: Richard L. Breen; Howard Singer) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "Tourniquet" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "Tourniquet" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.06% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "tourniquet": Esmarch tourniquet. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "tourniquet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kapëse për ndaljen e gjakut, fashë për ndaljen e gjakut. (various references) | |
Arabic | وقف النزف, سداد الأوردة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | турникет (stile, turnstile). (various references) | |
Chinese | 止血带. (various references) | |
Czech | turniket (turnstile). (various references) | |
Danish | tourniquet (Esmarch tourniquet), kompres (compress, Esmarch tourniquet, pack, packing, pad, pledget, sponge, swab, tampon), forbinding (bandage, bandage dressing, dressing, Esmarch tourniquet), expulsivbind (Esmarch tourniquet), afsnøring (arrest of blood circulation, blood arrest, constriction, Esmarch tourniquet, ligate, ligature), aarepresse, årepresse (Esmarch tourniquet). (various references) | |
Dutch | verband van Esmarch (Esmarch tourniquet), stuwband, knevelverband (Esmarch tourniquet), drukverband (Esmarch tourniquet), draaitafel (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine). (various references) | |
Farsi | شریان بند (Ligature). (various references) | |
Finnish | tourniquet (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), puristusside (Esmarch tourniquet), kääntöpöytä (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine). (various references) | |
French | tourniquet (Esmarch tourniquet). (various references) | |
German | Staubinde, Expulsionsbinde (Esmarch tourniquet), Druckverband (Esmarch tourniquet), Drehtisch (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), Aderpresse (Esmarch tourniquet). (various references) | |
Greek | TOURNIQUET (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), στροφείο (pintle, pivot, turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), περιστρεφόμενη τράπεζα (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), ειδικό αιμοστατικό περίδεμα, ελαστικός επίδεσμος του Esmarch (Esmarch tourniquet), αιμοστατικόσ επίδεσμοσ, αιμοστατικός επίδεσμος (Esmarch tourniquet). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוסם עורקים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | érszorító. (various references) | |
Italian | tourniquet (turntable for bottles of sparkling wine), laccio emostatico (arterial compressor, artery-clamp, blunt forceps, Esmarch tourniquet, haemostatic forceps, hemostatic forceps), laccio (lace, lasso, loop, noose, snare, string, thong, tie, trap), fasciatura espulsiva (Esmarch tourniquet), fasciatura di Esmarch (Esmarch tourniquet), fascia emostatica. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 止血帯 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しけつたい. (various references) | |
Korean | 지혈대. (various references) | |
Manx | spank (ligature). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ourniquettay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | torniquete (reel, swivel, turnstile). (various references) | |
Romanian | bandaj de compresie. (various references) | |
Russian | турникет (stile, turnstile, wicket). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stezač (obturator, squeezer). (various references) | |
Spanish | torniquete (swivel, turnstile). (various references) | |
Swedish | tryckförband. (various references) | |
Turkish | turnike (toll bar, toll gate, turnstile), kanı durdurmak için sarılan sargı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хрестовина (center-piece, centre-piece, cross-beam, cross-piece, turnstile), турнікет (stile, turnstile, wicket). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | garô. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | tourniquet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tourniquet": tourniquets. (additional references) | |
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"Tourniquet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: torniquet, touniquet, tourniqet, tourniquete. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tourniquet" (pronounced ternikut) |
| 5 | -n i k u t | tunicate. |
| 4 | -i k u t | affricate, certificate, indelicate, syndicate, triplicate. |
| 3 | -k u t | aftermarket, advocate, basket, Becket, biscuit, blanket, breadbasket, brisket, bucket, casket, circuit, cricket, hypermarket, delicate, docket, duplicate, etiquette, gasket, intricate, jacket, junket, market, microcircuit, musket, Newmarket, packet, patriarchate, picket, pickpocket, pocket, premarket, racket, racquet, remarket, rocket, silicate, skyrocket, socket, sprocket, straitjacket, thicket, ticket, trinket, upmarket, wastebasket, wicket. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-q-r-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: quitrent, quotient. | |
-3 letters: nuttier, outturn, quintet, quitter, quittor, routine, tritone, turnout, uniquer, unquiet, unquote. | |
-4 letters: intort, norite, nutter, orient, outrun, quinte, quoter, requin, retint, roquet, rotten, runout, tenour, tenuti, tenuto, tinter, tonier, toquet, torque, torten, touter, triton, triune, unique, uniter, untrue. | |
-5 letters: inert, inter, intro, inure, irone, niter, nitre, nitro, noter, otter, ourie, outer. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-q-r-t-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: tourniquets. | |
+5 letters: counterquestion. | |
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