Styptic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Styptic \Styp"tic\, a. [L. stypticus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to contract.]
     Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality
     of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part;
     astringent. [Written also {stiptic}.]
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     {Styptic weed} (Bot.), an American leguminous herb ({Cassia
        occidentalis}) closely related to the wild senna.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Styptic \Styp"tic\, n. (Med.)
     A styptic medicine.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  styptic
       adj : tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or
             blood vessels [syn: {hemostatic}]
       n : a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
           [syn: {astringent}, {astringent drug}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "styptic":
     alum, astringent, clamp, collapsible, compactable, compressible,
     compressor, constrictor, constringent, consumptive, contractible,
     contractile, contractional, contractive, contractor, deflationary,
     foldable, pincer, styptic pencil, vise