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Definition of "hemostat" [hemostat]

  • An agent, such as a chemical, that stops bleeding. (noun)
  • A clamplike instrument used to compress a blood vessel in order to reduce or arrest the flow of blood during surgery. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hemostat" in a sentence
  • "He used a hemostat to gather up the bloodied finger and dropped it into an evidence bag, which he quickly closed, but isolating the finger did little to diminish the odor."
  • "The huge moose heart intruded on her recitations of hemostat placements and incision angles, and she turned to look."
  • "The first came from a precocious 12-year-old boy at a fishing show in Long Beach, Calif., who proved he could do the same knot as Kreh in about a 10th of the time, and the last two came from a doctor, who taught Kreh how to quickly tie two common fishing knots with a hemostat."