Tourniquet is valid Scrabble Word

Is tourniquet a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is tourniquet valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
19 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for TOURNIQUET in dictionary:

NOUN:

(French) a device to stop bleeding, as a bandage twisted tight by a stick, etc.
a device for stopping the flow of blood through a vein or artery, typically by compressing a limb with a cord or tight bandage.
An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure
a device to stop bleeding, as a bandage twisted tight by a stick, etc

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a device (as a band of rubber) that checks bleeding or blood flow by compressing blood vessels

Words related to TOURNIQUET

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Words that contain TOURNIQUET

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How to use TOURNIQUET in a sentence

A tight tourniquet can be tied a little above the wound, such that one finger should be able to pass under the tourniquet.
When a tourniquet is painful, it is too tight and should be carefully loosened a little.
A tourniquet could not be applied where the wound was.
On reaching the knee the tourniquet is stretched round the limb, fastened by means of its buckle and strap, and the bandage removed.
Those who feel they can dispense with the bandage use the tourniquet alone.
The tourniquet is now removed, and the wound is examined for bleeding vessels.
An Esmarch rubber bandage is next run up the limb, and the tourniquet applied, thus rendering the operation a nearly bloodless one.
Directly the tourniquet is removed there is a steady oozing of blood through the bandages, no matter how many we have put on.
The water expelled by the elbowed pipes reacted through pressure, as in the hydraulic tourniquet of cabinets of physics, and effected the propulsion of the vessel.
She took a handkerchief and calmly made a tourniquet above the gash, twisting it tight with a lead pencil.

While these things had been gathered in, the flow of blood had been abated by the use of a tourniquet.
The shattered thigh was painted with picric acid and the tourniquet tightened above the injury.
There was a greenish festering hole so high up the leg that it was impossible to use a tourniquet.
Then he thrust his knife between the improvised rope and the leg, forming a crude tourniquet.
In your case the tourniquet kept the poison from getting very far into your system.
However it will usually he necessary to use an improvised tourniquet.
As the tourniquet was twisted tighter and tighter the lines in his brow grew deeper.
Using a tourniquet increases the chances that the arm or leg will have to be amputated later.
Had he been instantly taken from his horse and a tourniquet applied, he might perhaps have been saved.
With my handkerchief and a short stick, I made a simple tourniquet, which stopped the bleeding, when I accompanied him to the hospital.
Each squad had a set of splints, and every man carried a tourniquet and two roller bandages in his pouch.

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