styptic
adjectiveContracting the tissues or blood vessels; astringent.
adjectiveTending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels; hemostatic.
nounA styptic drug or substance.
Astringent; oonstrictive; binding.
Having the quality of checking hemorrhage or bleeding; stanching.
nounAn astringent; something causing constriction or constraint.
nounA substance employed to check a flow of blood by application to the bleeding orifice or surface.
nounA styptic medicine.
adjectiveProducing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
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