— stypticity /stip tis"i tee/ , stypticalness , n.
/stip"tik/ , adj. Also, styptical .
1. serving to contract organic tissue; astringent; binding.
2. serving to check hemorrhage or bleeding, as a drug; hemostatic.
n.
3. a styptic agent or substance.
[ 1350-1400; ME stypticus stypikós contractile, equiv. to styp- (see STYPSIS) + -tikos -TIC ]