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单词 curette
释义 curette Surg.|kjʊəˈrɛt|
[a. F. curette, f. curer in sense ‘to clear, cleanse’, applied to various industrial tools as well as in the surgical use.]
A small surgical instrument like a scoop, used in removing a cataract from the eye, wax from the ear, granulations, dried mucus, etc., from the throat, uterine cavity, bladder, etc. Also, a suction-instrument used in the removal of a soft cataract.
1753Sharp in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 325, I then passed the curette (a little scoop) through the pupil.1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1772) 259, I took off a Quantity of incrustated Gravel with the Currette.1869Wells Diseases of Eye 253 The convexity of the curette is to be placed against the edge of the cornea.
Hence cuˈrette v., to scrape with a curette; cuˈretting vbl. n.
1888Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Feb. 288 My present practice is to curette in every case of disease affecting..the uterine mucous membrane.1890Braithwaite Retrosp. Med. CII. 108 Antiseptic curetting in Endometritis (Puerperal).
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