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‖ bougie|buʒi|
[a. F. bougie wax candle, from Bougie (Arab. Bijiyah), a town in Algeria which carried on a trade in wax.]
1. A wax-candle, a wax-light.
1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake II. ii. 40 Supplied with..Bougies, otherwise Wax-lights, for their own Apartments. 1817M. Edgeworth Tales & Novels (Rtldg.) IX. xii. 109 Snatching up a bougie, the wick of which scattered fire behind him, he left the room. c1865Letheby in Circ. Sc. I. 97/1 Stearic candles will supersede every other description of bougie.
2. Med. A thin flexible surgical instrument made of waxed linen, india-rubber, metal, etc., for introduction into the passages of the body, for the purpose of exploration, dilatation, or medication.
An armed or caustic bougie has a piece of caustic fixed within its extremity.
1754–64Smellie Midwif. III. 513 He introduced a large bougie which went up a great way. 1758J. S. tr. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 222 Bougies, contrived of waxed Linen rolled up. 1804Abernethy Surg. Observ. 201, I introduced a small hollow bougie..into the œsophagus, and injected half a pint of milk and water. |