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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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
Callous ulcers are best removed by a curette, knife, or hot iron and then treated like a common wound.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
By the use of such caustics as caustic potash, chloride-of-zinc paste, pyrogallic acid, arsenic, and the galvano-cautery; and by operative measures, such as excision and erasion with the dermal curette, and by the x-ray.
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
Scraping the affected parts with a blunt curette is a valuable measure, but is temporarily disfiguring.
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
The ulcers should be scraped or curetted and cauterized with lunar caustic, and the mouth washed daily with a two per cent water solution of a cresol disinfectant.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
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
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 Alexander Miles
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
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 Harry Caulton Reeks
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
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
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 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
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