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Etymology edit

From French tourniquet, from tourner (to turn).

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/, /ˈtɔː.nɪ.keɪ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtʊɚ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtɝ.nɪ.keɪ/
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Noun edit

tourniquet (plural tourniquets)

  1. (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
    • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; [].
    • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
      [] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes; []
    • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 83:
      After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.
  2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
  3. (obsolete) A turnstile.

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Verb edit

tourniquet (third-person singular simple present tourniquets, present participle tourniqueting, simple past and past participle tourniqueted)

  1. To apply a tourniquet bandage.

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Etymology edit

From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tourniquet m (plural tourniquets)

  1. unpowered carousel (playground)
  2. revolving door or turnstile

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