Styptic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Contracting the tissues or blood vessels; astringent.
  • adj. Tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels; hemostatic.
  • n. A styptic drug or substance.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Bringing about contraction of tissues, especially to stop bleeding
  • n. A substance used for styptic results.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
  • n. A styptic medicine.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Astringent; oonstrictive; binding.
  • Having the quality of checking hemorrhage or bleeding; stanching.
  • n. An astringent; something causing constriction or constraint.
  • n. A substance employed to check a flow of blood by application to the bleeding orifice or surface.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
  • adj. tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
    • Equivalent
    astringent   
    Variant
    stiptic   
    Form
    styptic pencil   
    Synonym
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    astringent   
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