tourniquet
English
WOTD – 17 May 2008
Etymology
From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tourniquet (plural tourniquets)
- A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
- 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; […].
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- Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
- A turnstile.
Translations
a tightly compressed bandage used to stop bleeding
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French
Etymology
From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tuʁnikɛ/
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Further reading
- “tourniquet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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