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語源

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtʊə.nɪ.keɪ/, /ˈtɔː.nɪ.keɪ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtʊɚ.nɪ.kɪt/, /ˈtɝ.nɪ.keɪ/

名詞

tourniquet (複数形 tourniquets)

1. (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

     […] Bull was in the bathroom taking his fix, clutching his old black necktie in his teeth for a tourniquet and jabbing with the needle into his woesome arm with the thousand holes; […]

   • 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 83:

     After he was done, Lillehei's assistants released the tourniquet around Gregory's venae cavae, allowing blood to return.

2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
3. (obsolete) A turnstile.

動詞

tourniquet (三人称単数 現在形 tourniquets, 現在分詞 tourniqueting, 過去形および過去分詞形 tourniqueted)

1. To apply a tourniquet bandage.

Further reading

• tourniquet on Wikipedia.
• “tourniquet”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.