different between tourniquet vs splint

English

Etymology

From French tourniquet, from tourner (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??.n?.ke?/, /?t??.n?.ke?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?.n?.k?t/, /?t??.n?.k?t/, /?t?.n?.ke?/

Noun

tourniquet (plural tourniquets)

1. A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

   • His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].
2. Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position.
3. A turnstile.

Translations

French

Etymology

From tourner with suffix -iquet (as in berniquet).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?.ni.k?/

Noun

tourniquet m (plural tourniquets)

1. unpowered carousel (playground)
2. revolving door or turnstile

Descendants

• ? Portuguese: torniquete
• ? Spanish: torniquete
• ? Turkish: turnike

Further reading

• “tourniquet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splint?, *splint? (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spl?nt/

Noun

splint (plural splints)

1. A narrow strip of wood split or peeled from a larger piece.
2. (dentistry) A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.
3. (medicine) A device to immobilize a body part.
4. (military, historical) A segment of armour consisting of a narrow overlapping plate.
5. (mining) Synonym of splent coal
6. (zootomy) A bone found on either side of a horse's cannon bone; the second or fourth metacarpal (forelimb) or metatarsal (hindlimb) bone.
7. (zootomy, veterinary medicine) A disease affecting the splint bones, as a callosity or hard excrescence.

Usage notes

• For a horse to pop a splint is for it to receive an injury to the splint bone or surrounding area.

Derived terms

• shin splint
• splinter

Translations

Verb

splint (third-person singular simple present splints, present participle splinting, simple past and past participle splinted)

1. (transitive) To apply a splint to; to fasten with splints.
2. To support one's abdomen with hands or a pillow before attempting to cough.
3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To split into thin, slender pieces; to splinter.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Florio to this entry?)

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