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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
styptic /ˈstɪptɪk/ Medicine

▶adjective capable of causing bleeding to stop. ▶noun a styptic substance.

– origin ME: via L. from Gk stuptikos, from stuphein ‘to contract’.

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