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écrasement

écrasement noun: the operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment.

Noun

écrasement (countable and uncountable, plural écrasements)

  1. The operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment.
    • Her physicians consented to its écrasement, which occupied ten or twelve minutes.1871, James Marion Sims, Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, § II., page #92

Forms of écrasement

pluralécrasements

Origin of écrasement

Borrowed from French écrasement (“crushing”).

Questions about écrasement

What does écrasement mean?
Écrasement means the operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment.
What part of speech is écrasement?
Écrasement is a noun.
What is the plural of écrasement?
The plural of écrasement is écrasements.

Words near écrasement in the dictionary

  1. Éclou
  2. écorché
  3. écorchés
  4. écossaise
  5. écossaises
  6. écrasement
  7. écrasements
  8. écraseur
  9. écraseurs
  10. écru
  11. écrémage

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