Definition of Hemostatic

1. Adjective. Tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels.

Exact synonyms: Styptic
Similar to: Astringent
Derivative terms: Hemostasis, Stypsis, Styptic

Definition of Hemostatic

1. a. Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.

2. n. A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.

Definition of Hemostatic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to hemostasis ¹

2. Adjective. That checks bleeding; styptic ¹

3. Noun. Any medicine that stops bleeding. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hemostatic

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Medical Definition of Hemostatic

1. 1. Of or relating to stagnation of the blood. 2. Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic. A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage. Origin: Gr. Causing to stand, fr. To stand. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemostatic

hemorrhoid
hemorrhoidal
hemorrhoidal vein
hemorrhoidals
hemorrhoidectomies
hemorrhoidectomy
hemorrhoids
hemosiderin
hemosiderins
hemosiderosis
hemostases
hemostasia
hemostasis
hemostat
hemostatic (current term)
hemostatics
hemostats
hemotaphonomy
hemothorax
hemotoxic
hemotoxicity
hemotoxin
hemotoxins
hemotoxylin
hemovanadin
hemovigilance
hemovore
hemozoin
hemp

Literary usage of Hemostatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"hemostatic TISSUE EXTRACTS; KEPHALIN Extracts of various tissues hasten the ... The injection into guinea pigs of hemostatic tissue, extracts and serum ..."

2. The Modern Materia Medica: The Source, Chemical and Physical Properties (1912)
"Suprarenal capsule, hemostatic—brown particles soluble in water with turbidity, and employed as vasoconstrictor topically (10 to 30 per cent, solutions), ..."

3. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"Styptic Collodion has many uses as a hemostatic and protective which will suggest themselves, ... hemostatic ..."

4. The Modern Materia Medica: The Source, Chemical and Physical Properties by Druggists circular (1912)
"Suprarenal capsule, hemostatic—brown particles soluble in water with turbidity, and employed as vasoconstrictor topically (10 to 30 per cent, solutions), ..."

5. Therapeutic Gazette (1899)
"... and passing above the ganglion; when the latter was freed it was seized with hemostatic forceps and torn away by a movement of traction. ..."

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