hemostat

plural hemostats · alternative haemostat

1. medicineAn instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.

   1 more example

   “We gave them fake arms and taught them to hold a scalpel, how to tie sutures, how to hold multiple instruments,” Dr. Burns, the show’s medical adviser, said in a recent interview in his cluttered study, demonstrating the gunslinger reflexes needed to flip a waiting hemostat, a scissor-like tool, off the wrist and seal a broken blood vessel.

   2014 January 8, Jennifer Schuessler, “The Cocaine, the Blood, the Body Count”, in The New York Times