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ballonnement

ballonnement noun: the ballooning or distending of a part of the body for operative or diagnostic purposes.

Noun

ballonnement (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The ballooning or distending of a part of the body for operative or diagnostic purposes.
    • […] he reported the first cases operated upon by him with rectal ballonnement, pointed out the applicability of the high operation to the removal of tumors of the posterior bladder-wall […]1889, Albert Henry Buck, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences

Origin of ballonnement

Borrowed from French ballonnement.

Questions about ballonnement

What does ballonnement mean?
Ballonnement means the ballooning or distending of a part of the body for operative or diagnostic purposes.
What part of speech is ballonnement?
Ballonnement is a noun.

Words near ballonnement in the dictionary

  1. Ballon d'Or
  2. Ballon d'Ors
  3. ballonet
  4. ballonets
  5. ballonigrin
  6. ballonnement
  7. ballonné
  8. ballonnés
  9. ballons
  10. ballons d'essai
  11. Ballons d'Or

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