жгут — meaning in English
zhgut
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English meaning
- tourniquet noun A tight band or device wrapped around a limb to stop severe bleeding by cutting off blood flow.
Senses
жгут is used for these senses in English:
- garrot A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
- tourniquet (medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.