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hemostatic

adjective, noun

hemostatic is spelled H-E-M-O-S-T-A-T-I-C: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, hemostatic means “Of or pertaining to hemostasis: stopping bleeding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hemostatic?

Letters10: H-E-M-O-S-T-A-T-I-C
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 130,282nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is hemostatic?

Hemostatic appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of hemostatic

  • more hemostatic comparative
  • most hemostatic superlative
  • haemostatic UK
  • hemostatics plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does hemostatic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to hemostasis: stopping bleeding.

noun

  1. 1

    Any medicine that stops bleeding.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does hemostatic come from?

From hemo- + -static.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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