ventouse

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noun

A cupping glass.

OriginMiddle English ventouse ← Anglo-Norman ventuse ← French ventouse →
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Meanings

nounventouse (plural ventouses)

plural ventouses · alternative ventose

  1. obsoleteA cupping glass.

    [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
  2. medicineA suction cup-like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths.
verbventouse (third-person singular simple present ventouses, present participle ventousing, simple past and past participle ventoused)

present singular third person ventouses · participle present ventousing · participle past ventoused · past ventoused

  1. obsoleteTo cup; to use a cupping glass.

Origin

  1. Frenchventouse
  2. Anglo-Normanventuse
  3. Middle Englishventouse
  4. Englishventouse

Possibly continuing Middle English ventouse, ventuse, ventose, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman ventuse; or perhaps a reborrowing directly from French ventouse, or both.

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APA

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MLA

“ventouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ventouse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ventouse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ventouse.

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