tourniquets
Meaning of tourniquets
plural noun
a device for stopping the flow of blood through a vein or artery, typically by compressing a limb with a cord or tight bandage.
late 17th century: from French, probably from Old French tournicle ‘coat of mail’, influenced by tourner ‘to turn’.
Information about tourniquets
- It is a name.
- The singular form of tourniquets is: tourniquet.
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Hyphenation of tourniquets
tourni-quets
- It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
- tourniquets is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with tourniquets
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