écrasement

noun

The operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment.

OriginFrench écrasement →
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Meanings

nounécrasement (countable and uncountable, plural écrasements)

plural écrasements

  1. countableuncountablemedicineThe operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment.

    Her physicians consented to its écrasement, which occupied ten or twelve minutes.

    1871, James Marion Sims, Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, § II., page #92

Origin

  1. Frenchécrasement“crushing”
  2. Englishécrasement

Borrowed from French écrasement (“crushing”).

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APA

écrasement. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%A9crasement

MLA

“écrasement.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%A9crasement. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “écrasement,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%A9crasement.

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