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hemostat

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hemostat [′hē·mə‚stat]
(medicine)
An instrument to compress a bleeding vessel.


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The primary advantage that the lolly has over a sponge on a hemostat is that patients are willing to bite down on a plastic straw, whereas most refuse to bite down on a metal hemostat.
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