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Definition of Ecraseur
1. Noun. (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. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative form of ecraseur sort=ecraseur) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ecraseur
1. a surgical instrument [n -S]
Medical Definition of Ecraseur
1. An obsolete term for a snare, especially one of enough strength to cut through the base or pedicle of a tumour. Origin: Fr. Ecraser, to crush (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecraseur
Literary usage of Ecraseur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1865)
"Dr. Roi'TH said that, like his compeers, he, too, hud used the wire-rope ecraseur.
Unce, in using that of Dr. Hicks, he had found himself unable to remove ..."
2. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1858)
"The instrument employed was the double-action ecraseur, kindly lent for the ...
gentle traction was made downwards, the chain of the ecraseur was passed ..."
3. Pye's Surgical Handicraft: A Manual of Surgical Manipulations, Minor Surgery by Walter Pye (1893)
"A chain ecraseur (Fig. 227), worked slowly (say one link in about 10 seconds) is
also a very efficient form of removal. ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1880)
"Operation by the ecraseur In operating by this method, if the uterus be prolapsed,
if the degree of longitudinal hypertrophy be so excessive as to cause ..."
5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1881)
"It is an ordinary ecraseur, but instead of the traveller being a hook it ...
All who are in the habit of mounting the ordinary ecraseur with steel wire are ..."
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