Medical Definition of Craseur
1.
An 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 steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.
Origin: F, fr. Ecraser to crush.
Source: Websters Dictionary
(01 Mar 1998)
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