Crossword clues for curettage
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] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1897; see curette (q.v.) + -age.
Wiktionary
n. (context medicine English) The removal of unwanted tissue from a body cavity using a curette.
WordNet
n. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette [syn: curettement]
Wikipedia
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 It has been replaced by vacuum aspiration over the last decade.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 has been used to treat teeth affected by periodontitis.
Gingival curettage is a surgical procedure designed to remove the soft tissue lining of the periodontal pocket with a curet, leaving only a gingival connective tissue lining. ... Gingival curettage, as originally conceived, was designed to promote new connective tissue attachment to the tooth, by the removal of pocket lining and junctional epithelium. Since there is no evidence that gingival curettage has any therapeutic benefit in the treatment of chronic periodontitis, the American Dental Association has deleted that code from the fourth edition of Current Dental Terminology (CDT-4). In addition, the American Academy of Periodontology, in its Guidelines for Periodontal Therapy, did not include gingival curettage as a method of treatment. This indicates that the dental community as a whole regards gingival curettage as a procedure with no clinical value.
Curettage is also a major method used for removing osteoid osteoma and osteoblastoma.
Curettage with subsequent culture is more accurate than ulcer base swan culture or aspiration and culture for diabetic foot ulcers.
Curettage is also used when excising a chalazion of the eyelid.
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.