catheter

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæθɪtə(ɹ)/
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• General-American: /ˈkæθɪtɚ/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 TH AH0 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French cathéter, from Late Latin cathetēr, from Ancient Greek καθετήρ (kathetḗr, “surgical instrument for emptying the bladder”), from καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to descend, let down”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, suffix forming masculine nouns from verbs).

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قَسْطَر (qasṭar) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Azerbaijani: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Basque: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Bulgarian: катетър (katetǎr) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Catalan: catèter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Chinese Mandarin: 導管 /导管 (dǎoguǎn) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Czech: cévka — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Czech: katétr — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Danish: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Dutch: katheter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Esperanto: katetero — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Estonian: kateeter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Finnish: katetri — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• French: cathéter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Galician: catéter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• German: Katheter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Greek: καθετήρας (kathetíras) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Ancient Greek: καθετήρ (kathetḗr) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Hebrew: צנתר — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Hungarian: katéter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Ido: katetero — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Indonesian: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Irish: cataitéar — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Italian: catetere — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Japanese: カテーテル (katēteru) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Kazakh: катетер (kateter) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Khmer: បំពង់បូម (bâmpôngbom) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Korean: 카테터 (kateteo) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Lithuanian: kateteris — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Norwegian: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Norwegian Bokmål: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Pashto: کتيتر — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Persian: کاتتر (kâteter) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Polish: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Polish: cewnik — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Portuguese: cateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Russian: кате́тер (katɛ́tɛr) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Serbo-Croatian: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Slovak: katéter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Slovak: cievka — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Slovene: katéter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Spanish: catéter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Swahili: katheta — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Swedish: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Tagalog: panunda — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Tagalog: pansunda — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Tagalog: kalilya — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Tagalog: kanilya — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Tagalog: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Telugu: కాథెటర్ (kātheṭar) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Turkish: sonda — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Turkish: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Ottoman Turkish: سونده (sonda) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Ukrainian: кате́тер (katéter) — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Uzbek: kateter — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Vietnamese: ống thông — small tube inserted into a body cavity
• Vietnamese: ống dẫn lưu — small tube inserted into a body cavity