hemostat
noun
- clamp tool that keeps the pressure; commonly used during surgery to control bleeding
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From hemo- + -stat.
- An instrument that clamps blood vessels to diminish or halt blood flow.
““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.”