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pessary|ˈpɛsərɪ|
[ad. med.L. pessārium, f. L. pess-um, -us, a. Gr. πεσσός (pl. πεσσά, as if from πεσσόν), an oval stone used in playing a game like draughts; hence, a medicated plug, as here.]
†1. Med. A medicated plug of wool, lint, etc., to be inserted in the neck of the womb, or other aperture of the body, for the cure of various ailments; a suppository. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 339 A medicyn..þat is putt in bineþe wiþ a clisterie, ouþer wiþ a pessarie for to make clene a mannes lymes wiþinne. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 25 b, The floures of the wilde grape..are good to put in pessaries to stanche blode. 1681Phil. Trans. XII. 18, I thought I had sufficiently arm'd my Senses against it,..my Ears with Cotton, my Nose with Pessaries, my mouth with Sponges, all dipt in Vinegars and Treacles. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 113 It is..used outwardly in the Form of a Pessary. 1860Tanner Pregnancy iii. 137 A very efficient medicated pessary.
2. Surg. An instrument of elastic or rigid material worn in the vagina to prevent or remedy various uterine displacements.
1754–64Smellie Midwif. I. 418 Different kinds of pessaries..of a triangular, quadrangular, oval, or circular shape. 1805Med. Jrnl. XIV. 98 A case of Prolapsus Uteri, in which the sponge pessary seems to have a decided and manifest superiority. 1846F. Brittan tr. Malgaigne's Man. Oper. Surg. 556 Pessaries..some..are called vaginal pessaries; the others, called uterine pessaries. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iii. ii. 81 The manufacture of artificial teats, pessaries, and other surgical instruments.
3. A contraceptive device which is placed in the vagina, now esp. a suppository.
1886H. A. Allbutt Wife's Handbk. (ed. 2) vii. 48 Dr. Mensinga, of Flensburg, has invented a preventive pessary, to be worn by the woman, which..will,..properly adjusted, be a real preventive of conception. 1922Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Aug. 327/2 In cases unable to maintain themselves or their children the woman should be temporarily sterilized by compulsion..—for example, by the insertion of the spring wish-bone pessary. 1935H. B. Whitehouse Eden & Lockyer's Gynæcol. (ed. 4) 211 Of mechanical devices to prevent conception three are in common use to-day, the male sheath or condom.., the female vaginal occlusive pessary.., and the cervical cap pessary. 1957T. N. A. Jeffcoate Princ. Gynaecol. xxxviii. 583 Some pessaries dissolve to form a ‘foam’ which creates a mechanical barrier between the spermatozoa and the cervix. 1973B. Law Family Planning in Nursing ii. 44 Pessaries, vagitories and foaming tablets are other forms in which spermicides are presented. |
