A wedding ring is sort of a tourniquet worn on one's finger to stop circulation. From LearnThat.org. [Anonymous]
On the soldier's left leg, the tourniquet is above the knee. From Wordnik.com. [The front lines of saving lives] Reference
A tourniquet is a last resort as it cuts off blood supply to the rest of the limb. From Wordnik.com. [Columnist: Keith Groller] Reference
The tourniquet is a less manageable and not more certain compressor of the arterial trunk than is the hand of an intelligent assistant. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
"tourniquet" for the ailing financial industry and slow-moving economy. From Wordnik.com. [Long Island Business News Products] Reference
Conn.) said during debate, describing the measure as a "tourniquet" to slow record numbers of foreclosures and declining home prices. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage Aid Plan Advances] Reference
Esmarch bandage and tourniquet applied to the limb. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
When the city needed a tourniquet, it got band-aids. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 1, 2005] Reference
A tourniquet could not be applied where the wound was. From Wordnik.com. [History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest] Reference
The tourniquet had slipped and the wound was bleeding again. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa] Reference
He applied his own tourniquet to a nearly severed left ankle. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Front] Reference
The once again convoluted plot twist is a useless tourniquet. From Wordnik.com. [Derek Beres: Christoper Nolan's False Start] Reference
At the best of times a very tight tourniquet is distinctly uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
After the tourniquet has been applied, do not permit it to be loosened. From Wordnik.com. [In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)] Reference
In exceptional cases you find a tourniquet or the Spanish windlass applied. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881] Reference
Those who feel they can dispense with the bandage use the tourniquet alone. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
The tourniquet is now removed, and the wound is examined for bleeding vessels. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
In recent months the tourniquet of police surveillance began to tighten around Al-Amin. From Wordnik.com. [A Firebrand's Long Run] Reference
When possible, an Esmarch's tourniquet should be applied in the case of the lower limb. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference
It thus won't do, for instance, to cut off the trunk as a tourniquet for a bleeding leg. From Wordnik.com. [David Katz, M.D.: Medical Research, Lifestyle Choices and Your Health Destiny] Reference
Once the bandages are adjusted, the hobbles may be removed, and the tourniquet loosened. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
The tourniquet was an absolute necessity, or more of the nerve poison would enter her system. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
Using a tourniquet increases the chances that the arm or leg will have to be amputated later. From Wordnik.com. [In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)] Reference
A tourniquet which seemed like a knife, and hurt terribly, was applied as well as the bootlace. From Wordnik.com. [Fanny Goes to War] Reference
Let the claimants scream in the night or tourniquet their wounds — let them pray to sparrows. From Wordnik.com. [GOD'S FACE] Reference
The knife and the tourniquet, the rapid surgical operation: the poor, pale fellow maimed for life. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Had he been instantly taken from his horse and a tourniquet applied, he might perhaps have been saved. From Wordnik.com. [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference
There are buttons, buckles, a tourniquet, jewelry and coins likely left by members of an Ohio regiment. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeologists Discover Civil War Artifacts In Georgia] Reference
First Aid by applying a tourniquet where there is arterial bleeding, or bandaging up an ordinary wound. From Wordnik.com. [With The Immortal Seventh Division] Reference
The swollen muscles and dead skin from the burns were acting as a tourniquet on DiChiara's blood vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
When I gave him the instruction "paw," he offered that big foot to the vet, who placed a tourniquet on his leg. From Wordnik.com. ['My Boy' Had Become A Threat to Our Safety] Reference
A tourniquet of this character shuts off all the blood in the limb and if kept on too long the parts may mortify. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The tourniquet buckle was stamped with the name of a New York company that manufactured surgical equipment in the 1860s. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia Southern Student Finds Rare Confederate POW Camp Artifacts] Reference
"Where do you put a tourniquet on a person who has been sliced all over the body, cut to the bone, absolutely to the bone?" she says. From Wordnik.com. [A Superpower's Dilemma] Reference
Bollywood Erin Brockovich to describe Kalinda, a gumshoe in tourniquet-tight clothing who'd use her sexuality to extract information. From Wordnik.com. ['What Would Kalinda Do?'] Reference
SPECIAL ADVICE ON tourniquets: Never use a tourniquet unless you cannot stop excessive, life-threatening bleeding by any other method. From Wordnik.com. [In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)] Reference
With my handkerchief and a short stick, I made a simple tourniquet, which stopped the bleeding, when I accompanied him to the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South] Reference
A doctor on the beach applied a makeshift tourniquet, and he was medivaced back to the US where his leg was later amputated below the knee. From Wordnik.com. [Shark attack survivors fight to save endangered species] Reference
A tourniquet may be improvised by using the compress, running a stick or the bayonet through the band, and taking up the slack by twisting. From Wordnik.com. [Military Instructors Manual] Reference
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