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語源

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

名詞

ventouse (plural ventouses)

1. (obsolete) A cupping glass.
   • 1603, Plutarch, “Platoniqve Questions”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, question 6, page 1022:

     [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.

2. (medicine) A suction cup-like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths.

別の表記

• ventose

動詞

ventouse (third-person singular simple present ventouses, present participle ventousing, simple past and past participle ventoused)

1. (obsolete) To cup; to use a cupping glass.

アナグラム

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