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A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dentistry, medicine, sciences
Examples
- 2020, Yu Matsumoto, 10: Bone Curette Handle for Improved Bone Removal in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Seiji Kakehata, Tsukasa Ito, Daisuke Yamauchi (editors), Innovations in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Springer, page 86, Curettes with an octagonal-shaped shaft are readily available and widely distributed in Japan.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To scrape with a curette.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: curet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: surgical instrument
Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مِجْرَفة
(mijrafa)
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Arabic:
مِكْشَطة
(mikšaṭa)
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Bulgarian:
кюрета
(kjureta)
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Catalan:
cureta
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Catalan:
cullereta
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Czech:
kyreta
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Dutch:
curette
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Estonian:
kürett
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Finnish:
kaavin
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Finnish:
kyretti
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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French:
curette
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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German:
Kürette
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Greek:
ξέστρο
(xéstro)
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Ido:
kureto
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Indonesian:
kuret
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Italian:
curette
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Japanese:
キュレット
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Japanese:
キューレット
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Japanese:
掻爬器
(souhaki)
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Macedonian:
кирета
(kireta)
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Portuguese:
cureta
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Russian:
кюре́тка
(kjurétka)
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Spanish:
legra
— surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
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Finnish:
kaapia
— to scrape with a curette
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Polish:
łyżeczkować
— to scrape with a curette
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Portuguese:
curetar
— to scrape with a curette
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Spanish:
legrar
— to scrape with a curette
