ballonnement
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ballonnement.
Noun edit
ballonnement (uncountable)
- (surgery, archaic) The ballooning or distending of a part of the body for operative or diagnostic purposes.
- 1889, Albert Henry Buck, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences:
- […] he reported the first cases operated upon by him with rectal ballonnement, pointed out the applicability of the high operation to the removal of tumors of the posterior bladder-wall […]
French edit
Etymology edit
From ballonner (“to swell”) + -ment.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ballonnement m (plural ballonnements)
Further reading edit
- “ballonnement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.