Restraining vs Styptic - What's the difference?
restraining | styptic | Related terms |
The act by which someone or something is restrained.
* George Meredith
Bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 328:
Specifically, that stops bleeding.
* 1973 , (Nicholas Monsarrat), The Kapillan of Malta :
* 1959 , (Daniel Keyes), Flowers for Algernon :
A substance used for styptic results.
* 1876 , Henry Beasley, The Book of Prescriptions
* 1889 , John Barclay Biddle, Materia Medica and Therapeutics: For Physicians and Students
* 1990 , A. L. Tommie Bass et al., Herbal Medicine Past and Present
Restraining is a related term of styptic.
As nouns the difference between restraining and styptic
is that restraining is the act by which someone or something is restrained while styptic is a substance used for styptic results.As a verb restraining
is .As an adjective styptic is
bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.restraining
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said;
styptic
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Alternative forms
* styptick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Boyles turns to look over his shoulder, squinting into the styptic sun, and then flags a hand over his head.
- The growth on top was a scrubby plant, unknown anywhere else on Malta, which was believed to have styptic qualities – it could staunch bleeding when packed on top of a wound […].
- But I waited while he dabbed at the cut with styptic powder.
Noun
(en noun)- The powdered gum with resin is used as a styptic ; and the mucilage has been recommended as an application to burns.
- Externally, it is applied as a styptic , and in solution, of various strengths, as an astringent.
- Knowledge of puffball's use as a styptic and for hemorrhoids reached Bass through the popular tradition.
