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单词 blood-stauncher
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blood-staunchern.

Brit. /ˈblʌdˌstɔːn(t)ʃə/, U.S. /ˈblədˌstɔn(t)ʃər/, /ˈblədˌstɑn(t)ʃər/
Forms: 1700s– blood-stancher, 1700s– blood-stauncher.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., stancher n.1
Etymology: < blood n. + stancher n.1
1. A substance, device, etc., which staunches (or is reputed to staunch) bleeding. Cf. blood-stopper n. 1.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment to stop bleeding > [noun] > other equipment to stop bleeding
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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.
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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).
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