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A long, slender, flexible instrument (originally made of whalebone) with a sponge, ball, button, or other attachment at one or both ends, used…
Medicine. A thin flexible surgical instrument made of waxed linen, india-rubber, metal, etc., for introduction into the passages of the body, for the…
a bougie armed with a piece of caustic.