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Tourniquet vs Pasg - What's the difference?

tourniquet | pasg | initialism |

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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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  • 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;.
  • Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
  • A turnstile.
  • pasg

    English

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * MAST