écrasement

noun

écrasement

noun

Etymology Borrowed from French écrasement (“crushing”).

Medicine, Sciences, Surgery 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:

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