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écrasements

écrasements is the plural of écrasement.

Meaning of écrasement

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

Questions about écrasements

What is écrasements the plural of?
Écrasements is the plural of écrasement.

Words near écrasements in the dictionary

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

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