styptic
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈstɪptɪk/
- Specialized
:
estíptico
- She kept a styptic powder handy for any accidental nicks while preparing dinner.
- styptic pencil
Examples
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One must be realistic, she wrote to her brother, apply the styptic pencil to one's scratches, pour iodine into the deeper wounds, and get on with life in this world.
Fiction book (1996) -
And if you take very good care of your styptic pencil and dry it after every shave, it'll last longer than most relationships you're in.
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The process took about 20 minutes if one had all the utensils in order, including tissues, band-aids, and coagulating styptic powder.
Blog text (19) -
The medic applied a styptic solution to the wound to stop the bleeding.
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After shaving, he used a styptic pencil to seal the small cuts on his face.
Synonyms
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7.9
Makes bleeding stop by making blood vessels or tissues close
Compounds
- Specialized
A leafy tropical shrub with a strong smell whose seeds are sometimes mixed with coffee
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Morphology
styptic = stypt + ic
The adjective is derived from the same learned combining form and '-ic'; the semantic relation to 'checking bleeding' is not transparently derivable by average learners.
Etymology
Styptic as an adjective comes from the same old Greek root stypt- meaning 'to press together' or 'to tighten', like the idea of a 'press'. That's why a styptic substance is one that makes tissue tighten and so helps stop bleeding.