Styptic is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 94 anagrams from letters in styptic (cipstty).
1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin stȳpticus Greek stȳpikós contractile, equivalent to stȳp- (see stypsis) + -tikos -tic
It is also styptic, and when applied in plasters is used in curing ulcers.
Its styptic properties are undoubtedly due to tannic acid, as all the tests I have been able to make prove this to be the case.
Tobacco leaves were used as a styptic by the Indians of Brazil in the sixteenth century.
It is also largely used in the composition of crayons, in tannery, and in medicine (as an astringent and styptic).
Name from , blood; perhaps from the styptic properties of some species.
Again the flow of words is checked by the styptic previously applied.
Dr Todd says, that in all cases of internal hmorrhage, or hmorrhagic tendency, it is the best astringent or styptic we possess.
He could not help praising them a little for what they had done with the primitive tourniquet and the styptic agency of the snow.
They should be non-irritating, antiseptic, and styptic, at the same time.
I was well already, on taking the styptic from her dear hands.
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