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Definition of Curette
1. Noun. A surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity.
Definition of Curette
1. n. A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.
2. v. t. To scrape with a curette.
Definition of Curette
1. Noun. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument for cleaning a diseased surface ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Curette
1. to treat with a curet [v -RETTED, -RETTING, -RETTES]
Medical Definition of Curette
1. A spoon-shaped instrument with a sharp edge. The word curette comes from the French and means a scraper. The French verb curer is to scrape clean. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curette
Literary usage of Curette
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"The curette can remove fragments of decidua inaccessible to the unger. 6. In late
or chronic abortion, the curette is necessary to remove the firmly ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas (1880)
"In a very few rare cases in which the wire curette fails to effect a cure, ...
Dangers of the curette—The dangers which attend upon the use of the curette ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1878)
"... and his recommendation of the curette with subacute edges known by his name
for their removal, the majority of gynecological text-books have mentioned ..."
4. The Science and Art of Surgery: Being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries by John Eric Erichsen (1869)
"Now, in such a case, by using the syringe, with the end like that of a curette,
but made tubular, keeping the point of it in the posterior aqueous chamber, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by John Soelberg Wells, Charles Stedman Bull (1880)
"The capsule having been freely divided, the curette should be carefully introduced
through the corneal wound, ..."
6. Essentials of gynaecology: Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers by Edwin Bradford Cragin (1893)
"In malignant disease of the uterus, the curette is also of value to remove
sloughing masses. What are the preliminaries to the use of the curette ? ..."
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