Restrictive vs Styptic - What's the difference?
restrictive | styptic | Related terms |
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
Restrictive is a related term of styptic.
As adjectives the difference between restrictive and styptic
is that restrictive is confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds while styptic is bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.As a noun styptic is
a substance used for styptic results.restrictive
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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.
