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tourniquet
(ˈtʊənɪkɛt, -keɪ, ‖ turnikɛ)
Also 7 turneke, 8 turniket, tournequet.
[a. F. tourniquet, dial. torniquai, deriv. of tourn-er to turn.]
1. A surgical instrument, consisting essentially of a bandage, a pad, and a screw, for stopping or checking the flow of blood through an artery by compression; also, a bandage tightened by twisting a rigid bar put through it.
1695W. W. News Lt. Chirurg. put out 53 His..slacking the Turneke..caused such an additional Expence of Blood. 1721Naish in Phil. Trans. XXXI. 227 Upon slackening the Turniket. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 381 The offender is..strangled by putting a cord twice round his neck, and twisting it tight with a piece of stick behind, like a tournequet. 1806Med. Jrnl. XV. 149 Remarks..on the screw tourniquet. 1869Latest News 10 Oct. 7 He strangled himself in bed with a tourniquet made of a handkerchief and a piece of stick. 1877Erichsen Surg. I. 34.
attrib.1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 443 When such a wound happens in a limb, the leaving a tourniquet ligature loose about it,..till the Surgeon can be called, is a precaution. 1820Sporting Mag. VII. 108 The tourniquet [hand] shake is the next in importance.
2. a. A turnstile. rare. b. = Barker's mill (Ogilvie, 1882).
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tourniquet, a Turn-Still. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 56 Seek some winding alley, with a tourniquet at the end of it, where chariot never rolled or flambeau shot its rays. 1876Ruskin Fors Clav. lxiv. VI. 113 We..are to work outside, here, for your dinners, and hand them through the wall to you at a tourniquet. |