| 单词 | tourniquet | 
| 释义 | tourniquetn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment to stop bleeding > 			[noun]		 > tourniquet or compressor tourniquet1695 torcular1728 compressor1870 serre-fine1875 constrictor1882 1695    W. W. Novum Lumen Chirurgicum Extinctum 53  				His..slacking the Turneke..caused such an additional Expence of Blood. 1722    E. Naish in  Philos. Trans. 1720–21 		(Royal Soc.)	 31 227  				Upon slackening the Turniket. 1756    Gentleman's Mag. 26 381  				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. 1806    Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 149  				Remarks..on the screw tourniquet. 1853    J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. iii. 54  				The tourniquet arresting the flow of blood through the collateral vessels. 1869    Latest News 10 Oct. 7  				He strangled himself in bed with a tourniquet made of a handkerchief and a piece of stick.  2.   a.  A turnstile. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > 			[noun]		 > gate > turnstile wheel14.. turnpike1545 whirl-gate1550 turning-stile1611 turnstilea1643 turning-wheel1669 moulinet1706 tourniquet1706 turnabout1805 turn-gate1905 1706    Phillips's New World of Words 		(new ed.)	  				Tourniquet, a Turn-Still. 1768    L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 154  				Seek some winding alley, with a tourniquet at the end of it, where chariot never rolled or flambeau shot its rays. 1876    J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VI. lxiv. 113  				We..are to work outside, here, for your dinners, and hand them through the wall to you at a tourniquet.  b.  = Barker's mill n.   (Ogilvie, 1882). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < | 
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