tourniquet

• Whatever mishap had necessitated replacing the windshield must have also deployed the airbags; they had not been replaced After pressing his belt into service as an impromptu tourniquet, the two of them tried not to look at, or think about, Doug's mangled right arm. —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Feb. 2002
• They had put on a tourniquet, then fought the tree stump onto the trailer and labored it home to Changi. —  Clavell - King Rat
• If a tourniquet is used, it should be removed as soon as possible. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
• "It's like a tourniquet - it will stop the bleeding, then we have to set about fixing the way we do business in Washington, D.C.," he said. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
• Of interest to BEAMbot fans is the use in "Blow" of a thread tourniquet, a simple mechanical stratagem that turns a pager motor into a muscle-like actuator, and the use of a curvigami paper carapace instead of skeletal mechanism. —  MAKE Magazine

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