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styptic
[ stip-tik ]
adjective
- serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
- serving to check hemorrhage or bleeding, as a drug; hemostatic.
noun
- a styptic agent or substance.
styptic
/ stɪpˈtɪsɪtɪ; ˈstɪptɪk /
adjective
- contracting the blood vessels or tissues
noun
- a styptic drug
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Derived Forms
- stypticity, noun
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Other Words From
- styp·tic·i·ty [stip-, tis, -i-tee], stypti·cal·ness noun
- non·styptic adjective
- non·stypti·cal adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of styptic1
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Example Sentences
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.
It 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.
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