NOUN
- a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
ADJECTIVE
- tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
How To Use styptic In A Sentence
- Smaller than this Common Burnet is the Salad Burnet, _Poterium sanguisorba, quod sanguineos fluxus sistat_, a useful [431] styptic, which is also cordial, and promotes perspiration. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- I did dog rescue work for 13 years and one of the vets we use suggested that when we trim the dogs nails that we trim them just a bit shorter than you are supposed to and apply styptic powder.
- Makes sense, I suppose, since it's also used in styptic pencils. bullfroghrr From The Tips Box: App Purchases, Paragraphs, To-Do Time Limits | Lifehacker Australia
- I never met a writer who didn't bleed at the slightest unfavorable comment, and no number of favorable or even ecstatic remarks will serve as a styptic pencil. "...there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
- If you're tired of bleeding from shaving, try this unique styptic gel formula from Proraso.
- Makes sense, I suppose, since it's also used in styptic pencils. From The Tips Box: App Purchases, Paragraphs, To-Do Time Limits | Lifehacker Australia
- The root has a styptic bitter taste ; the leaves and flowers are bitter and mucilaginous. This is what I was trying to photograph at midnight, in the moonlight.
- The Low Latin equivalent of the Arabic _tubb [= a] q_ "styptic," is _bitumen_, whence The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920
- I found him in the lavatory, straight razor in hand, his half-shaven chin dotted in styptic, the water of his bowl a not unpleasant shade of pink. The Monstrumologist
- But I wonder whether you could affix a styptic pencil to the contraption, too. Now people who can't bend over can still shave their legs