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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

constricteur à chapelet

English translation:

bead ligature/tourniquet ot knot-tyer

Added to glossary by SJLD
Nov 1, 2011 17:46
12 yrs ago
French term

constricteur à chapelet

French to English Medical Medical: Instruments Historical medical instrument
In a biographical paragraph about Mathias Mayor, a Swiss surgeon. Context: "Mathias Mayor naît en 1775 et obtient le grade de docteur à Pavie. En 1806 il est nommé chirurgien en chef de l’hôpital cantonal de Lausanne, une charge qu’il conservera jusqu’à sa mort. Il améliore de nombreux procédés opératoires, met au point un **constricteur à chapelet** pour extirper les goitres...". What is this instrument called in English, please? Thanks in advance for any help!
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 bead ligature
Change log

Nov 3, 2011 17:01: SJLD changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1522">Nicky Over's</a> old entry - "constricteur à chapelet "" to ""bead ligature""

Proposed translations

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bead ligature

A loop of ligature material is put around the mass to be removed and tightened by sliding the beads down the string as far as possible.

Technique is described here in the context of uterine polyps:

http://books.google.com/books?id=PVcXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA197&lpg=P...

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Note added at 34 mins (2011-11-01 18:20:11 GMT)
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with a pic
http://books.google.com/books?id=HsIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=P...

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Note added at 37 mins (2011-11-01 18:23:08 GMT)
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ah here we are - goitre
see "knot-tyer resembling a string of beads"
http://books.google.com/books?id=sDeBC_KcYScC&pg=PA227&lpg=P...

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Note added at 41 mins (2011-11-01 18:27:48 GMT)
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Mayor's knot-tyer - bingo
Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0766188175...Claude Bernard, Charles Huette - 2004 - Medical - 752 pages
Mayor's knot- tyer, which resembles a string of beads, is flexible, and adapts itself ... This operation ought only to be performed to arrest a haemorrhage,

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last one
http://books.google.com/books?id=XXGRMi7ycXYC&pg=PA820&lpg=P...

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Note added at 47 mins (2011-11-01 18:33:28 GMT)
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Note also the mention of "tourniquet de Mayor" in the last link - "bead tourniquet" was in fact my first thought when I read the French description of his instrument.

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Note added at 59 mins (2011-11-01 18:45:55 GMT)
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tourniquet of Mayor
Peer comment(s):
agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne : Worth bearing in mind in case of an emergency on a desert island. Mayor's knot-tyer also, I believe.//Yeuch. Given the description, despair must have been at its height. I'd have opted for the Black Forest Cake instead ...
42 mins
desert island reading? check out the article on poisoning by bad sausages on page 30 of the last link (among other amusing bits) ;-)
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