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Styptic  adj.  (Written also stiptic)  Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.





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"Styptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... wound, which I examined when the woman poured in what I suppose was a styptic, looked healthy and but little inflamed. Of course, a skilled surgeon would have probed it and endeavoured to extract the ball, which had not gone through. The Soudanese were armed only with old muskets, ...
— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty
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... said Lorrimore in a low voice. "Probably washed his wounds here—salt is a styptic. Flesh wounds, most likely, but," he added, sinking his voice still lower, "judging from what we've seen of the blood he's lost, he must have been weakening by the time he got here. Still, he's a man of vast strength and physique, and—he'd push ...
— Ravensdene Court • J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
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Words linked to "Styptic" :   medication, astringent drug, medicament, alum, styptic weed, medicinal drug, stypsis, hemostatic, medicine, astringent


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