écraseur

/ ˌeɪkrɑːˈzɜː /

noun

1. a surgical device consisting of a heavy wire loop placed around a part to be removed and tightened until it cuts through

Word History and Origins

Origin of écraseur¹

C19: from French, from écraser to crush

Example Sentences

The other is subjected to the veterinarian's knife and ecraseur and deprived of the testes,—the male sexual glands.

From Project Gutenberg

By the Écraseur.—Nunneley of Leeds has recorded cases in which he made a small incision through the skin, and mylohyoid and geniohyoid muscles, and through this passed a curved needle bearing the chain of the écraseur completely round the base of the tongue.

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The steel wire of an écraseur is then passed round its root as low down as possible, slowly tightened, and the tongue thus divided through its whole thickness in a very few minutes.

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Various plans have been tried, as cutting the attachment through slowly by the écraseur, ligature of each vessel separately, so many as twelve being sometimes required, and cauterising the stump.

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When this can not be done, attempts may be made to remove the mass with the écraseur or otherwise, following it up with antiseptic injections, as advised under the last heading.

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