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| bou·gie [ bee, bjee ] (plural bou·gies) |
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medical instrument: a medical instrument in the form of a flexible tube, inserted into a body passage such as the rectum to open it to allow medicines or instruments to be introduced
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| [Mid-18th century. < French, after the town of Bougie ( ArabicBijāya) in Algeria, which traded in wax] |
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