[syn: styptic, hemostatic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Styptic \Styp"tic\, n. (Med.)
A styptic medicine.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
styptic
adj 1: tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or
blood vessels [syn: styptic, hemostatic]
n 1: a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
[syn: astringent, astringent drug, styptic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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