Bougies
Noun
plural
- Plural of bougie
- 2001, Oliver Sacks, , (2001), 12,I was not too sure, as a child, what doctors "did," and glimpses of catheters and bougies in their kidney dishes, retractors and speculums, rubber gloves, catgut thread, and forecepts - all this, I think, rather frightened me, though it fascinated me too.