Middle English Dictionary Entry
ventọ̄se n.
Entry Info
| Forms | ventọ̄se n. Also ventoise, ventous(e, ventuse, veintose; pl. ventoses, etc. & ventuces. |
| Etymology | ML ventōsa & OF ventose, ventoise, ventouse, AF ventuse. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Surg. (a) An instrument for drawing blood or other matter out of the body, a cupping glass; ~ box;
(b) a similar instrument used to apply suction to a body part without promoting bleeding;
(c) ?the application of a cupping glass, the process of drawing blood with a cupping glass [may = (a)].
Associated quotations
a
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)305/2 : Sette þervpon a ventuse for to drawe þerto blood…& þan sette þervpon þe watir leche.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)31b/a : Guua [Add 33534: Guma]: ventoyse box [Hrl 1738: a ventous box; Hrl 2270: a veyntose box].
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)156b/a : Ventosyng is a putting to of ventosez [L ventosarum] by which materie intercutanee, i. atuix þe skyn and flesh, ys auoided; A ventose forsoþ is a box or boisted instrument wiþ a streite mouþe and a large wombe…made of hornez of brasse and of glasse.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)91a/b : Þe maner of euacuacioun wiþ ventoses & waterleches is good for febel folke as childerne & olde men.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)139/725 : Set a ventose þer-ynne & draw oute þe wicked blod.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)84b/b : The firste cure…is…ffor to opene þe wounde wiþ a fleme þat þe malicious blood mowe passe out and aftir þat sette þeron a ventuse.
b
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)92b/a : If he blediþ on þe riȝt side, þanne þou schalt putte a ventuse withouten garsynge on þe lyuere, and if þat he blede on þe liftside, þanne þou schalt putte þe ventuse on þe splene.
c
- a1400 12 PTrib.(1) (Roy 17.B.17)48 : Monnus body is clensid with blode-letyng…on two maners…with opunnyng of vayne & with ventuse.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)156b/a : Þe principale entension of ventose wiþ scarificacioun is for to auoide sensibly and for to holde þe place or stede of fleobotomy when þat is may not be done.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)91a/a : Ventouse oþer ventosinge is good when blake blode þat is engrossed lieþ aboute a wounde & maye not be resolued neiþer consumed bi no medicines.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)133b/b : Þere fallen ofte times enpostumes in þe stomake…þou schalt procede boþe in knowinge of hem and in diete & in þe maner of þe curacioun of hem and bloodles and ventuces & alle oþer operaciouns.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ventose.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. ventose box.