Haemostatic Definition

Haemostatic Sentence Examples

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

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

• Medicinally, gallic acid has been, and is still, largely used as an astringent, styptic and haemostatic. Gallic acid, however, does not coagulate albumen and therefore possesses no local astringent action.

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

• This action on the vessels is so marked as to constitute the drug a haemostatic, not only locally but also remotely.