Aurilave

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.
  2. 2
    An ear-brush.

    "The patient also has used for some time an aurilave, with which he has swabbed his ear until he has packed the canal with debris of ear-wax"

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"The patient also has used for some time an aurilave, with which he has swabbed his ear until he has packed the canal with debris of ear-wax"

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