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Definitions
tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin stypticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek στυπτικός (stuptikós), from στύφω (stúphō, “to contract”).
Used in a sentence
“Boyles turns to look over his shoulder, squinting into the styptic sun, and then flags a hand over his head.”
“The growth on top was a scrubby plant, unknown anywhere else on Malta, which was believed to have styptic qualities – it could staunch bleeding when packed on top of a wound […].”
“But I waited while he dabbed at the cut with styptic powder.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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