gauze vs tourniquet

gauze

verb
  • To apply a dressing of gauze 

  • To mist; to become gauze-like. 

noun
  • A thin fabric with a loose, open weave. 

  • Wire gauze, used as fence. 

  • A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing. 

  • A thin woven metal or plastic mesh. 

  • Mist or haze 

tourniquet

verb
  • To apply a tourniquet bandage. 

noun
  • Any of several similar methods of clamping components into position. 

  • A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb. 

How often have the words gauze and tourniquet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )