direct pressure
Pushing straight down
Direct pressure is physical force applied straight onto something, typically a wound to stop bleeding: Apply direct pressure with a clean cloth until help arrives.
The phrase extends to any focused, sustained effort to compel action or change: The campaign put direct pressure on lawmakers to vote no.
Unlike indirect approaches, direct pressure confronts the target without intermediaries.
- forceStrength or compulsion
- brute forcePower over technique
- pushForce something away
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- arm twistingForceful persuasion tactics
squeeze · compel · full court press · urgent · applied · immediate · hands-on · confrontation · insistence · in your face · no nonsense · bearing down · wound · first aid · stanch · blunt · firm · hold firm
- hemostasiscompression bandage, tourniquet
- ResuscitationCPR training, CPR certification, defibrillation, chest compressions, mouth to mouth
- hemostaticsthrombin, fibrin, platelets, clotting factor, hemostat
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Compression band stopping hemorrhage
pressure points · elevation · cauterization · coagulants · ligation
direct pressuresoft power
Influence through appeal
suggestion · insinuation · implied threat · nudging · laissez-faire
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