Definition of "styptic" [styp•tic]

• Contracting the tissues or blood vessels; astringent. (adjective)
• Tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels; hemostatic. (adjective)
• A styptic drug or substance. (noun)

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• "Makes sense, I suppose, since it's also used in styptic pencils. bullfroghrr"
• "Smaller than this Common Burnet is the Salad Burnet, _Poterium sanguisorba, quod sanguineos fluxus sistat_, a useful [431] styptic, which is also cordial, and promotes perspiration."
• "The Low Latin equivalent of the Arabic _tubb [= a] q_ "styptic," is _bitumen_, whence"