Grattage
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Grattage is a noun meaning (surgery) The scraping away of granulations (from an ulcer etc.) in order to stimulate healing.
Meaning
(surgery) The scraping away of granulations (from an ulcer etc.) in order to stimulate healing.
More Meanings
- (art) A technique popularized by Max Ernst involving scraping at dried paint in order to form patterns.
Example Sentences
August 18th.—Operation by "grattage" without ether. The pain experienced by the patient was quite severe.
These same forest images appeared when he adapted his frottage technique to the roughly rubbed and scratched painting techniques of grattage.
They test the possibilities of collage, frottage, grattage, different methods of painting and printing, but also wordplay—and the mutual imitation and intersection ofthese devices.
Among those vaccinated by piqûre (sticking) a very small number only contracted the disease, and in these it was mild, while in those vaccinated by grattage it was, in general, severe.
Word Forms
- grattages
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include raclage, abrasion, scrape, grubbing, rasion, gritting.
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