tire-têten.
Obstetrics.
(See quot. 1842.)
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1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. Introd. 56 He also invented a tire-tête, which cannot be used until the skull is opened with a knife.
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 238/2 Let Leverot's tire-tête, with the three sides joined together, be introduced along the accoucheur's hand.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Tire-tête, a name given to different instruments used for extracting the head of the child when left in the uterus.
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