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Meaning
noun a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
adjective tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
originLearned borrowing from Latin stypticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek στυπτικός (stuptikós), from στύφω (stúphō, “to contract”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0