[L., a press for wine or oil; also an oil-cellar.]

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  1.  Anat. (in full torcular Herophili) = Press of Herophilus: see PRESS sb.1 11 b.

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1657.  Physical Dict., Torcular, a press.

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1693.  trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Torcular Herophili, that place where the four Cavities of the thick Skin of the Brain [Dura Mater] are joyned.

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1840.  G. V. Ellis, Anat., 56. Its opening into the torcular Herophili is sometimes double.

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1879.  St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 152. A pus-laden clot extending to the neighbourhood of the torcular.

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  2.  Surg. A TOURNIQUET.

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1727–41.  Chambers, Cycl., Torcular, among chirurgions, a contrivance for stopping bleedings in amputations.

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1860.  Mayne, Expos. Lex., Torcular … applied to the tourniquet.

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