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craseur (medicine)


craseur
<surgery> 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