单词 | blood-stauncher |
释义 | blood-staunchern. 1. A substance, device, etc., which staunches (or is reputed to staunch) bleeding. Cf. blood-stopper n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment to stop bleeding > [noun] > other equipment to stop bleeding blood-stauncher1722 blood-stopper1754 haemostat1900 vasotribe1903 1722 D. Turner Art of Surg. I. iv. 301 Nor must I forget among other famous..Blood Stanchers, to mention the Crepitus Lupi, call'd commonly the Fussball. 1754 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. Table of Contents 537/1 Agaric, a blood stancher, not a styptic. 1862 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Dec. 617/2 It [sc. gun-cotton] operates as a blood-stauncher. 1884 W. Whitla Elements Pharmacy, Materia Medica, & Therapeutics (ed. 2) iv. 452 The almost magical rapidity of the action of this blood-stauncher seems hardly explicable to the writer on this hypothesis. 1904 T. C. Allbutt Hist. Relations Med. & Surg. (1905) 95 He abhors barbarous blood staunchers, though in case of amputation of the thigh hot irons must be at hand. 1930 J. Gordon Some Craftie Arts iv. 70 The skin [of a hare] calcined was a wonderful blood stauncher. 2011 Independent Extra (Nexis) 4 Aug. 2 300 internationally renowned tattoo artistes will bring their inks, brushes, buzzing needles and blood-stanchers to set up for business in the Lazarus Exhibition Hall. 2. A person believed to have the power or ability to staunch bleeding by supernatural means. Cf. blood-stopper n. 2. ΚΠ 1845 G. Moore Power of Soul over Body ii. viii. 261 The village blood-stauncher, who is generally some shrewd old woman that sees a little through her neighbours, and is near akin to a witch. 1951 G. Lannestock tr. V. Moberg Emigrants (1995) i. ix. 144 His wife had in advance sent for a blood stancher, who arrived at the house immediately after the occurrence. 1985 Western Folklore 44 241 This non-canonical branch of the medical guild included, and in many cases still does, bonesetters, blood stanchers, wart rubbers, [etc.]. 2006 B. Geagley Day of False King 197 Kem-weset found his blood-stauncher, a young Isin man who had once been a farmer. When he approached..the wound on Kem-weset's thigh instantly stopped its flow. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1722 |
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