Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cup.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A cupping glass.
  • verb obsolete To cup; to use a cupping glass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A cupping glass.
  • noun medicine A suction cup like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths
  • verb obsolete To cup; to use a cupping glass.

Etymologies

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from Middle English

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Examples

  • · All obstetric maneuver, forceps, ventouse and symphysectomy.

    Chapter 7 1989

  • One of the downsides is a higher rate of "instrumental deliveries" - in which doctors need to use forceps or a ventouse to help deliver the baby's head.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • They advised using a ventouse, that's a vacuum attached to her head.

    coffee.geek.nz - Comments 2010

  • I agreed, the ventouse was shoved up there, and together she was pulled out as I pushed.

    coffee.geek.nz - Comments 2010

  • Obstetricians then intervened but it is claimed he was still was not delivered promptly - a ventouse and a forceps delivery failed and by the time he was finally delivered by Caesarean section he was in a very poorly condition.

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition 2010

  • Both babies suffered a significant subgaleal haemorrhage, or bleeding in the space between the scalp and the skull, after being delivered with the assistance of a ventouse extraction which involves a suction cup placed on the infant's head.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Not only are these labours generally longer and harder, they are also more likely to end in an assisted delivery with forceps, ventouse or a Caesarean.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • Not only are these labours generally longer and harder, they are also more likely to end in an assisted delivery with forceps, ventouse or a Caesarean.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • She said that according to the midwives and medical records, Dr Mohlala gave six 'pulls' with the ventouse suction device, which is twice the recommended amount.

    Kos RSS Feed 2009

  • Well, yesterday they had the 'complicated labour and birth' session which should have covered induction of labour, interventions, ventouse, forceps, caesarian section and epidurals, and when son recounted the class to me I was reduced to tears, of laughter.

    British Blogs 2008

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