gorgeret

plural gorgerets

1. obsoletepossiblySynonym of gorget (“surgical instrument”).

   […] then placing the Bill which is at the end of the Gorgeret into the Groove of the ...

   1710, Pierre DIONIS, A Course Of Chirurgical Operations: Demonstrated in the Royal Garden At Paris. Translated from the Paris Edition, page 119

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   These, having first made an Incision as before, pass the End of the Gorgeret thro' the Groove of the Catheter into the Bladder, as we directed for the male Conductor :

   1763, Lorenz Heister, A General System of Surgery, page 170

   V. The under part of the double gorgeret separated from the upper, which varies but little in shape from the common gorgeret.

   1773, William Bromfield, Chirurgical Observations and Cases, page 378

   I then introduce the beak of the common gorgeret into the groove of the staff, and press, it on, till it gets into the bladder, […]

   1773, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, page 182

   I therefore took the double gorgeret, without the cutting blade affixed, intending only to push back the stone, and dilate the neck of the bladder, which I did by getting the beak of the gorgeret into the sulcus of the staff […]

   1835, Astley Cooper, Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, page 453

   After this method became known, many different forms of gorgets and gorgerets were invented ; which it would answer no useful purpose to describe. Of one of them, Mr. Liston remarks, "It is more like an instrument for cutting turf, - a 'flauchter-spade,' - than for performing a delicate surgical operation."

   1860, William Pirrie, The Principles and practice of surgery, page 644

   Synonyms: gorget