▪ I. † ventose, n.1 Surg. Obs.
Also 7 Sc. vantose.
[a. OF. ventose, ventouse (F. ventouse, = Prov., Sp., Pg., It. ventosa), ad. L. ventōsa (sc. cucurbita), fem. of ventōsus, f. ventus wind.]
A species of cupping-glass. Also attrib.
| 1500 Ortus Vocab., Guna, a ventose boxe. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. N iij, Ventose is an instrument made in maner of a boxe with a streyt necke and a wyde bely. 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 346/1 Exhauste the bloode and froth therout with ventoses, a kinde of boxinge. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 137 Cupping glasses, boxes, and ventoses, draw the woorst matter out of the flesh. 1656 J. Smith Pract. Physick 44 Heurnius useth first Cupping-glasses and ventoses to the feet and Liver. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Ventose, a Cupping-glass... The ingenious Mr. Hawksbee hath now found a way of applying Cupping-glasses without Fire, by means of a small Air-Pump. |
▪ II. ventose, a. rare.
(vɛnˈtəʊs)
[ad. L. ventōs-us (It., Sp., and Pg. ventoso, Prov. ventos, obs. F. ventous, mod.F. venteux) windy, conceited, etc., f. vent-us wind.]
Windy, flatulent.
| 1721 Bailey, Ventose, windy, also empty, bragging, vaunting. 1867 J. Bigelow Bench & Bar v. 294 (Stand.), The ventose orator was confounded, and put himself and the glass down together. 1885 Huxley in Life (1900) II. vi. 94 It is better to wind up that way than to go growling out one's existence as a ventose hypochondriac. |
▪ III. † ventose, v. Surg. Obs.
Also 5 ventosen, -touse, -tuse.
[ad. OF. ventouser (13th c.), ventoser (F. ventouser, = Prov. ventozar, It. ventosare), ad. med.L. ventosāre, f. L. ventōsa ventose n.]
trans. To bleed (a patient) by means of a cupping-glass; to apply the cup to (a wound, etc.).
| α c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 12 Ventose him on þe two buttokkis, if þat he be feble. c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xii, Let þe wounde be ventosed and garsede. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. N iv b, Howe ought they to [be] gouerned that must be ventosed? |
| β c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 13 Þe oþere..schal not be leten blood ne ventusid. c 1440 Astron. Cal. (MS. Ashm. 391), Which places been perlous to ventuse or to kutte in þ{supt} tyme. c 1440 MS. Linc. A. 1. 17 fol. 301 b, Or elles be ventoused on the thee with a boyste. |
b. absol. To practise cupping.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 51 Þou schalt not lete blood, but þou maist ventosen, if þat it be nessessarie. |