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Meaning of ventouse | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A cupping glass.
    obsolete
  2. A suction cup-like device used on a baby's head to assist in difficult childbirths.

Examples

“[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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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