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curet

American  
[kyoo-ret] / kjʊˈrɛt /

noun

curetted, curetting
  1. a variant of curette.


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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

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 Charles Godfrey Leland

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 Alexandre Dumas père

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 Harry Caulton Reeks

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 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

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 Harry Caulton Reeks

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

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 Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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

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

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