écrasement

Borrowed from French écrasement (“crushing”)

écrasement (plural écrasements)

1. (surgery) Operation of removing a part, as a tumor, by a wire or chain loop gradually tightened so as to cut slowly through its attachment.
   • 1871, James Marion Sims, Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, § II., page #92:

     Her physicians consented to its écrasement, which occupied ten or twelve minutes.

• écrasement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

écrasement m (plural écrasements)

1. crushing
2. crash (of an airplane)

• “écrasement” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).