styptic
serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
serving to check hemorrhage or bleeding, as a drug; hemostatic.
a styptic agent or substance.
Origin of styptic
1Other words from styptic
- styp·tic·i·ty [stip-tis-i-tee], /stɪpˈtɪs ɪ ti/, styp·ti·cal·ness, noun
- non·styp·tic, adjective
- non·styp·ti·cal, adjective
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How to use styptic in a sentence
We shall put it to rights in a moment, with one drop of styptic—my styptic, or rather my wife's, sir—She makes the water herself.
The Fortunes of Nigel | Sir Walter ScottIt is powerfully styptic and astringent; and is used chiefly as an external application in cancer.
Its styptic properties are undoubtedly due to tannic acid, as all the tests I have been able to make prove this to be the case.
Tobacco leaves were used as a styptic by the Indians of Brazil in the sixteenth century.
The water in which it was dipped operated as a styptic, as a febrifuge, and possessed other properties as a medical talisman.
The Talisman | Sir Walter Scott
British Dictionary definitions for styptic
/ (ˈstɪptɪk) /
contracting the blood vessels or tissues
a styptic drug
Origin of styptic
1Derived forms of styptic
- stypticity (stɪpˈtɪsɪtɪ), noun
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