curette

American  

[kyoo-ret] / kjʊˈrɛt /

Also curet

noun

1. a scoop-shaped surgical instrument for removing tissue from body cavities, as the uterus.

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verb (used with object)

curetted, curetting

1. to scrape with a curette.

curette British  

/ kjʊəˈrɛt /

noun

1. a surgical instrument for removing dead tissue, growths, etc, from the walls of certain body cavities

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verb

1. (tr) to scrape or clean with such an instrument

Etymology

Origin of curette

First recorded in 1745–55; from French, equivalent to cur(er) “to cleanse” + -ette feminine noun suffix; see origin at -ette, cure

Example Sentences

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curette curetted curetting

Then the uterus itself is scraped with a dull-edged curette, a small spoon-shaped instrument, until all embryonic matter has been removed.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then commonly the entire ovum comes away with the gauze, or what remains of it is taken out with a curette.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

All structures showing spots of necrosis should now be carefully removed, either with the knife or with the curette.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

And so many blood-vessels being dead, being scooped away by that sharp curette, how could the blood circulate in the top half of that flaccid thigh?

From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold

If the teeth are sound, and the case is of long duration, the sinus is opened through the canine fossa and its walls curetted.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

The fistulous opening or openings in the skin of the coronet should now be thoroughly curetted, and the whole of the wound dressed as to be described later.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

With Hartmann's lateral ring knife the posterior naso-pharyngeal wall and fossæ of Rosenmüller are curetted.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

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

Fistulous openings in either of the flaps a, a must now be carefully curetted and dressed, and the flaps allowed to fall into position.

From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Reeks, Harry Caulton

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

The local treatment consists in thorough curetting and the subsequent application of a mildly stimulating ointment.

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

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

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

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