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noun 
  1. (medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
Etymology: After w:Bougie, Bougie in Algeria, and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made.


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