curet
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Here she uses that wit, gently but insistently, like a hygienist with a curet, to scrape away the social surface of her marriage.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2018
By-and-by, the paroxysms are less frequent, in proportion as the curet approaches.
From The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Dumas père, Alexandre
Some hinted at Natura, Mit her olt vis sanatrix, Boot eash doktor shvore he curet him, Und de rest were taugenix.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Or, if its progress is slow, and grave systemic disturbance be present, the whole part may be incised and curetted, and then treated antiseptically.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
Should our case of quittor be complicated by caries of the bone, this must, where possible, be scraped or curetted until the whole of the diseased portion is removed, and a healthy surface is left.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
The horn of the wall must be removed, and the diseased structures, whether gangrenous keratogenous membrane, necrosed ligament, or carious bone, carefully excised or curetted.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
The former must be well curetted, and the latter cleaned carefully with a scalpel and forceps.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
When at all diseased the glenoidal surface of the navicular bone should be curetted, even to the extent of the removal of the whole of the cartilage.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton
There is, indeed, no surer way of checking or of stopping a metrorrhagia than by curetting the womb during the very flow.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
Bloodgood advises the use of Esmarch's tourniquet, and that the curetting be followed by painting with pure carbolic acid and then rinsing with alcohol; a rod of bone is inserted to fill the gap.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Also uterine hemorrhage, attended with cramps and expulsion of clots, has been relieved by it after curetting had failed.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock
The administration of moderate to large doses of potassium iodide, conjointly with curetting or excision of the diseased mass.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
The wound proper is cleared of all foreign material either by clipping with the scissors, curetting or mopping with cotton or gauze pledgets.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
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