ventose

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A form of ventouse — A cupping glass.

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Meanings

nounventose (plural ventoses)

plural ventoses

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of ventouse.

    [I]t commeth at length to fall upon the fleſh which the ventoſe ſticketh faſt unto, and by heating and inchafing, it expreſſeth the humor that is within, into the ventoſe or cupping veſſel.

    1603, Plutarch, “Platoniqve Questions”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, question 6, page 1022
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