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Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette
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curettage
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n. (context medicine English) The removal of unwanted tissue from a body cavity using a curette.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1897; see curette (q.v.) + -age .
WordNet
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n. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette [syn: curettement ]
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Curettage ( or ), in medical procedures , is the use of a curette (French, meaning scoop) to remove tissue by scraping or scooping. Curettages are also a declining method of abortion . It has been replaced by vacuum aspiration over the last decade. Curettage ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
curettage \cu`ret*tage"\ (k[=u]`r[e^]*t[aum]zh" or k[=u]*r[e^]t"[asl]j), n. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping with a curette. Syn: curettement. [WordNet 1.5] ||
Usage examples of curettage.
The embryo has not been fully formed and all you need is a simple curettage, but after three months"--he hesitated--"it's another kind of operation, and it becomes dangerous.
But what with the high cost of this and that, the going rate for Dilation & Curettage was now four hundred.
At 7:30, February 14, 1976, a D&C—dilation and curettage, a routine gynecological procedure—was scheduled in room No.
Standard dilation and curettage on both uteri would prepare the areas for the best possible results and allow me to place the plastic film at the end of Cecily's tubes.
She had seen again and again the misery of girls with an unreckoned child, and again and again she had seen the septicaemia, the protracted poisoned deaths of girls who underwent the lethal curettage of crochet hooks and wires.