haemostasia

Questions about haemostasia

What does haemostasia mean?

haemostasia means "surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)".

How many syllables are in haemostasia?

haemostasia has 6 syllables: ha-e-mo-sta-si-a. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for haemostasia?

Close synonyms include hemostasis, haemostasis, hemostasia. 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 haemostasia a common word?

haemostasia 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.