| 单词 | blood-stauncher | 
| 释义 | blood-staunchern. 1.  A substance, device, etc., which staunches (or is reputed to staunch) bleeding. Cf. blood-stopper n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment to stop bleeding > 			[noun]		 > other equipment to stop bleeding blood-stauncher1722 blood-stopper1754 haemostat1900 vasotribe1903 1722    D. Turner Art of Surg. I.  iv. 301  				Nor must I forget among other famous..Blood Stanchers, to mention the Crepitus Lupi, call'd commonly the Fussball. 1754    Gentleman's Mag. Dec. Table of Contents 537/1  				Agaric, a blood stancher, not a styptic. 1862    Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Dec. 617/2  				It [sc. gun-cotton] operates as a blood-stauncher. 1884    W. Whitla Elements Pharmacy, Materia Medica, & Therapeutics 		(ed. 2)	  iv. 452  				The almost magical rapidity of the action of this blood-stauncher seems hardly explicable to the writer on this hypothesis. 1904    T. C. Allbutt Hist. Relations Med. & Surg. 		(1905)	 95  				He abhors barbarous blood staunchers, though in case of amputation of the thigh hot irons must be at hand. 1930    J. Gordon Some Craftie Arts iv. 70  				The skin [of a hare] calcined was a wonderful blood stauncher. 2011    Independent Extra 		(Nexis)	 4 Aug. 2  				300 internationally renowned tattoo artistes will bring their inks, brushes, buzzing needles and blood-stanchers to set up for business in the Lazarus Exhibition Hall.  2.  A person believed to have the power or ability to staunch bleeding by supernatural means. Cf. blood-stopper n. 2. ΚΠ 1845    G. Moore Power of Soul over Body  ii. viii. 261  				The village blood-stauncher, who is generally some shrewd old woman that sees a little through her neighbours, and is near akin to a witch. 1951    G. Lannestock tr.  V. Moberg Emigrants 		(1995)	  i. ix. 144  				His wife had in advance sent for a blood stancher, who arrived at the house immediately after the occurrence. 1985    Western Folklore 44 241  				This non-canonical branch of the medical guild included, and in many cases still does, bonesetters, blood stanchers, wart rubbers, [etc.]. 2006    B. Geagley Day of False King 197  				Kem-weset found his blood-stauncher, a young Isin man who had once been a farmer. When he approached..the wound on Kem-weset's thigh instantly stopped its flow. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  | 
	
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