ecarteur
See also: écarteur
English
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editecarteur (plural ecarteurs)
- (surgery) A type of retractor
- 1923, The Urologic and Cutaneous Review, volume 27, page 369:
- […] which consisted substantially in extracting the stone through the neck of the bladder and the posterior urethra dilated to its maximum with ecarteurs often to rupture.