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| co·ag·u·lat·ing ban·dage (plural co·ag·u·lat·ing ban·dages) |
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clot-stimulating dressing: a clot-stimulating dressing used to stop arterial bleeding. It contains chitosan, whose positive electrostatic charge offsets negatively charged red blood cells, or the blood-clotting factors fibrinogen and thrombin. These bandages can be placed whole into large wounds or in pieces into smaller wounds.
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