ballonnement
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ballonnement.
Noun
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 […]
- 1889, Albert Henry Buck, A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences
French
Etymology
ballonner (“to swell”) + -ment
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lɔn.mɑ̃/
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Noun
ballonnement m (plural ballonnements)
- (surgery) ballonnement
- flatulence, bloating
Further reading
- “ballonnement”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.