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Styptic   Listen
noun
Styptic  n.  (Med.) A styptic medicine.



adjective
Styptic  adj.  (Written also stiptic)  Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.






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"Styptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... times have done with the embalmed, crowned, and consecrated mummies which they have been pleased to denounce as delusions. Your Potiphars or your Mizraims, even when converted into balsam, or employed as a styptic, were at least not denuded of their historical identity by the druggists who reduced their time-honored remains to a powder. Their dust was made merchandise, but their characters were respected. Moreover, there was an object and a motive, even if mistaken ones, on the part of the medival ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various

... etc., without any description of their medicinal properties. The only one of these remedies which I have had occasion to test on myself is Tagulauay Oil, extracted from the leaves of the plant called in Tagalog Tangantangan. It is an excellent styptic. ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman



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