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Definition of Curettage
1. Noun. Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette.
Specialized synonyms: Suction Curettage, Vacuum Aspiration
Group relationships: D And C, Dilatation And Curettage, Dilation And Curettage
Generic synonyms: Operation, Surgery, Surgical Operation, Surgical Procedure, Surgical Process
Definition of Curettage
1. Noun. (medicine) The removal of unwanted tissue from a body cavity using a curette. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curettage
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Medical Definition of Curettage
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Curettage
Literary usage of Curettage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Operative Gynecology by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1920)
"curettage OF CERVIX. The curettage here referred to is vigorous ... When the
inflammation is extensive, the cervix curettage is simply an incident in the ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"The endolaryngeal measures, and of these the curettage, are naturally of the greatest
... curettage, which was favorably spoken of by fifteen nembers of the ..."
3. Moral problems in hospital practice by Patrick A. Finney (1922)
"Obstetrical writers as a rule recommend some form of curettage, as a means of
emptying ... Both are best fulfilled by instrumental curettage of the uterus. ..."
4. Gynecological and Obstetrical Tuberculosis by Charles Camblos Norris (1921)
"If the lesions be ulcer- ative or friable, a light curettage may be performed
and the ... curettage is of little value in the hypertrophic varieties of ..."
5. A Textbook of Gynecology by Charles Alfred Lee Reed (1901)
"The method of its employment does not differ from that already described in
connection with exploratory curettage as a means of diagnosis in endometritis ..."
6. Text-book of gynecological diagnosis by Georg Winter, Carl Ruge (1909)
"In disease of the mucous membrane of the body, in which inspection is of no use
whatever and palpation often fails to supply any information, curettage of ..."
7. Diagnostic and therapeutic technic ; a manual of practical procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1911)
"curettage. curettage, or the scraping of the inner lining of the uterine cavity,
... curettage is dangerous in the presence of submucous fibroids, ..."
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