Surgery snare (noun)
Origin of écraseur
French from écraser, to crushécraseur
écra·seurWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural ecraseurs)
- (surgery) A surgical instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a chain to avoid haemorrhage.
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French écraseur, "crusher".
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