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- Tlameme (porter)The professional carriers of the Nahuatl-speaking world. With no draft animals or carts, central Mexico moved goods, tribute and armies' supplies on human backs, held by a strap across the forehead.
- TourniquetA band tightened around a limb to stop the blood flowing past it. It can save someone bleeding from an arm or leg, and armies argued for over a century about whether it cost more limbs than it saved.
- TrephinationCutting or scraping a hole in the skull of a living person. One of the oldest known surgeries, often done after head injuries, and the bone shows that many patients survived it.
- TriageSorting casualties by how urgently they need care and how likely care is to help, when there are more wounded than hands to treat them.