Definitions for ecraseur
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Wiktionary
ecraseur(Noun)
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.
Origin: écraseur, "crusher".
Webster Dictionary
Ecraseur(noun)
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
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