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curette

 
Dictionary: cu·rette  cu·ret (kyʊ-rĕt') pronunciation
also n.
A surgical instrument shaped like a scoop or spoon, used to remove tissue or growths from a body cavity.

[French, from Old French, from curer, to cure, from Latin cūrāre, to take care of, from cūra, care. See cure.]


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Illustration from a United States patent for an ornate curette (Michelson, 1988)

A curette is a surgical instrument designed for scraping biological tissue or debris in a biopsy, excision, or cleaning procedure. In form, the curette is a small hand tool, often similar in shape to a stylus; at the tip of the curette is a small scoop, hook, or gouge. The verb to curette means to scrape with a curette.

In the performance of an adenoidectomy, a surgeon may view the adenoids using a mirror or endoscope, and then excise the adenoids with a curette.

In periodontics, the edged hook of the periodontal curette scrapes calculus (tartar) deposits from tooth enamel.


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Dansk (Danish)
n. - curette
v. tr. - foretage udskrabning på

Nederlands (Dutch)
curette(ren)

Français (French)
n. - curette
v. tr. - cureter

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kurette (chirurgisches Instrument)
v. - schaben mit einer Kurette

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ιατρ.) ξέστρο
v. - (ιατρ.) αποξέω

Italiano (Italian)
curetta, eseguire un raschiamento

Português (Portuguese)
n. - cureta (f)
v. - curetar

Русский (Russian)
кюретка, выскабливать кюреткой

Español (Spanish)
n. - cureta, instrumento quirúrgico
v. tr. - curetear

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kyrett
v. - kyrettera

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
刮匙, 耳挖, 用刮匙刮

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 刮匙, 耳挖
v. tr. - 用刮匙刮

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 소파기 (수술용 기구)
v. tr. - 큐레트로 긁어내다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - キューレット
v. - 掻爬する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) آله جراحيه (فعل) استعمل هذه الآله الجراحيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מכשיר גירוד, מגרד (בניתוח)‬
v. tr. - ‮ניקה או גירד במגרד‬


 
 

 

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