hemostat

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hemostat

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From hemo- + -stat.

noun hemostats · haemostat

An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow. “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, of

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noun clamp to close blood vessels

Português	hemostato
Français	pince hémostatique, pince de Péan
Deutsch	Gefäßklemme

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@misc{hemostat_2026,
  title = {hemostat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hemostat},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}