HEMOSTASIS

hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia, haemostasia

(noun) surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

hemostasis (usually uncountable, plural hemostases)

(medicine, countable, uncountable) The process of keeping blood inside a damaged vessel to stop bleeding.

Source: Wiktionary



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9 April 2025

COMMISERATIVE

(adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy; “made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue”- Kenneth Roberts


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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