Tourniquet vs Pasg - What's the difference?
tourniquet | pasg | initialism |
A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.
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Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
A turnstile.
(emergency medicine) Initialism for pneumatic antishock garment; inflatable trousers that apply pressure to the inferior half of a patient's body to decrease bloodloss and prevent the onset of shock similar to a tourniquet.
Tourniquet is a initialism of pasg.
As a noun tourniquet
is a tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.As an initialism pasg is
(emergency medicine) initialism for pneumatic antishock garment; inflatable trousers that apply pressure to the inferior half of a patient's body to decrease bloodloss and prevent the onset of shock similar to a tourniquet.tourniquet
English
("tourniquet" on Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)- His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;.