curette
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kjʊˈɹɛt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
Noun
[edit]curette (plural curettes)
- (medicine, dentistry) A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
- 2008, Cecilia Gorrel, Small Animal Dentistry[1], Elsevier (Saunders), page 223:
- Curettes are used for the subgingival removal of dental deposits and for root planing. They can also be used supragingivally. The working tip of a curette is more slender than that of a scaler.
- 2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page:
- Beginning in the 1880s, the curette quickly became the popular choice for those doctors on the lookout for instrumental aid in cases of pregnancy loss.
- 2020, Yu Matsumoto, 10: Bone Curette Handle for Improved Bone Removal in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Seiji Kakehata, Tsukasa Ito, Daisuke Yamauchi (editors), Innovations in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Springer, page 86,
- Curettes with an octagonal-shaped shaft are readily available and widely distributed in Japan.
Translations
[edit]surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Verb
[edit]curette (third-person singular simple present curettes, present participle curetting, simple past and past participle curetted)
- (transitive, medicine) To scrape with a curette.
Translations
[edit]to scrape with a curette
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]curette f (plural curettes)
Further reading
[edit]- “curette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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