Associations to the word «Tourniquet»

Wiktionary

TOURNIQUET, noun. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
TOURNIQUET, noun. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
TOURNIQUET, noun. A turnstile.

Dictionary definition

TOURNIQUET, noun. Bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca