SINCE 1828
écraseur
noun
écra·seur
| \ ā-krä-ˈzər, ˌē-\
Medical Definition of écraseur
: a surgical instrument containing a chain or wire loop that is used to encircle and sever a projecting mass of tissue (as the testicles of a horse or a pedicled tumor) by gradual tightening of the chain or loop
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