Other forms: tourniquets
A tourniquet is a tight band that stops heavy bleeding from a limb. Apply a tourniquet, loosen the tourniquet, a combat tourniquet.
Teaching changed after twenty years of war surgery: a tourniquet is now recommended for catastrophic limb bleeding, where it was once a last resort feared for the limb. Note the time it went on, and never loosen it to check. The French means to turn.
1nountourniquetA tight band that stops heavy bleeding from a limb.
“He tied a belt around her leg as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.”
tourniquet is a medical device.
French tourniquet comes from tourner, to turn, from the stick twisted to tighten the band.
Proto-Indo-European
*terkʷ-
French
tourniquet
English, today
tourniquet
Built from
From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA