écrasement
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French écrasement (“crushing”).
Noun[edit]
écrasement (countable and uncountable, plural écrasements)
- (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.
- 1871, James Marion Sims, Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, § II., page #92:
- Her physicians consented to its écrasement, which occupied ten or twelve minutes.
References[edit]
- “écrasement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From écraser (“to crush; to crash”) + -ment.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
écrasement m (plural écrasements)
Further reading[edit]
- “écrasement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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