compression bandage

1. 1.

   bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure

   Synonymstourniquet

   Broaderbandage

Questions about compression bandage

What does compression bandage mean?

compression bandage means "bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure".

What is another word for compression bandage?

Close synonyms include tourniquet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is compression bandage a common word?

compression bandage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.