curette
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- noun
- /kjʊˈrɛt/
- Specialized
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cureta
- One medium-sized curette, one small; one medium speculum, one large; two vulsellum forceps. Mr. Rose
- used a curette
Examples
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S (BLACK & WHITE): Figure 1. A: Lower lateral cartilage support is performed by using an ear curette to gently support the external nasal valve. B: Position of the curette outside the nose simulates its position within.
Academic text (2002) -
The nurse held each student in her lap, clasping the student's hands and holding his or her head back while the doctor used the curette to remove enlarged adenoids.
Academic text (2014) -
"It's a curette."
Fiction book (1999) -
S (BLACK & WHITE): Figure 1. A: Lower lateral cartilage support is performed by using an ear curette to gently support the external nasal valve. B: Position of the curette outside the nose simulates its position within.
Academic text (2002) -
Reaming is done by the surgeon, enlarging the IM canal with a motorized curette to accept the placement of a larger, stronger implant (Weinstein & Buckwalter, 2005).
Academic text (2007) -
The doctor carefully used a curette to scrape away the tissue in the patient's nasal cavity.
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During the procedure, the surgeon employed a curette to remove benign growths from the uterus.
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A curette is often used in medical procedures to extract samples from the inner lining of the body.
Synonyms
A small instrument doctors use during surgery to remove tissue with a scoop end
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Morphology
Etymology
Curette comes from French curer meaning 'to clean' plus the small ending -ette meaning 'little'. So a curette is like a 'little cleaner', a small scoop used to scrape or remove tissue.