haemostat's Usage Examples:

Haemostatic mechanisms control blood flow by regulating platelet adherence and fibrin deposition and various haemostatic proteins have been shown to regulate angiogenesis.

They thus act locally as haemostatics or styptics, and will often arrest severe haemorrhage from parts which are accessible, such as the nose.

They are very astringent, haemostatic and sedative; the strong solution of the subacetate is powerfully caustic and is rarely used undiluted.

So far is it from being an haemostatic that, if perfused through living blood-vessels, it actually dilates them.

This gives it the rare and valuable property of a remote haemostatic, erroneously supposed to be possessed by so many useless drugs.

In virtue of this property they are also mild haemostatics, tending to coagulate the albumens of the blood and thereby to arrest haemorrhage.

, a powerful haemostatic; position, such as elevation of the limb, valuable in bleeding from the extremities; styptics or astringents, applied locally, as perchloride of iron, tannic acid and others, the most valuable being suprarenal extract.

in pill, and is said to be analgesic and haemostatic in its action.

Ergot is used in therapeutics as a haemostatic, and is very valuable in haemoptysis and sometimes in haematemesis.

Medicinally, gallic acid has been, and is still, largely used as an astringent, styptic and haemostatic.

It is a powerful local haemostatic, but it only checks haemorrhage when brought directly in contact with the bleeding point.