curette
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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
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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 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
By using a small and sharp curette, one is enabled to cleanse the average wound quickly and almost painlessly.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
The Médecin Chef took a curette, a little scoop, and scooped away the dead flesh, the dead muscles, the dead nerves, the dead blood-vessels.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen Newbold La Motte
This is done either with a scalpel or with a curette.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon
I saw a doctor there and he wanted me to go to the hospital and have my womb curetted, but I did not feel like having that done.
From Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Lydia Estes Pinkham
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 Alexander Miles
The former must be well curetted, and the latter cleaned carefully with a scalpel and forceps.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
This is probably a fistulous track that should be curetted by a veterinarian, after which the following formula could be used to heal: Acetanilide, 1/2 ounce; zinc oxide, 1/4 ounce; bismuth subgalate, 1 1/4 ounce.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
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 Edward Pollock Anshutz
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 John Victor Lacroix
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 Havelock Ellis
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 Alexis Thomson
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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon
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