ecraseurn.
/eɪkrəˈzəː/ Surgery.
A blunt chainsaw, tightened by a screw or by a rack and pinion, for removing piles, polypi, etc. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon)
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1859 Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 15 Jan. On the use of the Ecraseur in the operation for Anal Fistula.
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n.1859- to look downwards
- to look etc ways for sunday
- to look feel like something the cat has brought in
- to know a hawk from a handsaw
- to know a hawk from a hernshaw
- to know a move or two
- to know a person a thing or two
- to know a person by her company
- to know a person by his company
- to know a person by the company he keeps
- to know a person by the company she keeps
- to know a person in the biblical sense
- to know a thing or two
- to know about
- to know all is to forgive all
- to know all the angles
- to know all the answers
- to know asunder
- to know backwards
- to know best
- to know better
- to know better formerly also better things
- to know both sides of a penny
- to know by headmark
- to know by heart