styptic

The pilots transport medical supplies for cancer patients, first-aid kits for bone fractures, styptic drugs and medicines that need to be refrigerated, such as insulin.

Herb robert smells musky when crushed, but the juice is a powerful styptic, stopping a cut or a thorn wound in seconds.

Police say they found medical tape, nail files and styptic powder, used to stop bleeding.

Also, styptic pencils to stanch cuts, and tampons, for nosebleeds, ominous inclusions in an environment where bodily fluids may be deadly.

But I waited while he dabbed at the cut with styptic powder.