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haemostasis

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hemostasis, haemostasis
the stoppage of bleeding or cessation of the circulation of the blood; stagnation of the blood in a part of the body. Also hemostasia, haemostasia.
See also: Blood and Blood Vessels
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Noun1.haemostasis - surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)
haemostasia, hemostasia, hemostasis
surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"
stop, stoppage - the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"


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Best Practice in Transfusion Specimen Labelling: Declaration of positive patient identification, Conference Paper, Annual Scientific Meeting of the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand, Australia and New Zealand Society of Blood Transfusion, Australasian Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Sydney, 2005.
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