CATHETER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catheter mean? 

• CATHETER (noun)
  The noun CATHETER has 1 sense:

1. a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open

  Familiarity information: CATHETER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHETER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("catheter" is a kind of...):

tube; tubing (conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catheter"):

endotracheal tube (a catheter that is inserted into the trachea through the mouth or nose in order to maintain an open air passage or to deliver oxygen or to permit the suctioning of mucus or to prevent aspiration of the stomach contents)

Derivation:

catheterise; catheterize (insert a catheter into (a body part))

 Context examples 

Treatment can include medicines, catheter procedures, surgery, and heart transplants.

(Congenital Heart Defects, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The passage of a catheter into the aortic root or other great vessel for the purpose of angiography of the native coronary arteries or bypass grafts supplying native coronary arteries.

(Coronary Angiography, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

C. macginleyi is commensal to the ocular conjunctiva, but is also an opportunistic pathogen that causes conjunctivitis, corneal ulcerations, keratitis, endophthalmitis, septicemia and catheter related infections.

(Corynebacterium macginleyi, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an infectious process that arises secondary to catheter use.

(Catheter-Related Infection, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

An infection that arises secondary to catheter use.

(Catheter-Related Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of radiation therapy in which radioactive material sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters is placed directly into or near a tumor.

(Brachytherapy, NCI Dictionary)

Catheters are also used to inject dye into the coronary arteries.

(Cardiac Catheterization, NCI Thesaurus)

Monitors, intravenous (IV) tubes, feeding tubes, catheters, breathing machines, and other equipment are common in critical care units.

(Critical Care, NIH)

A smaller tube (catheter) is then inserted through the endoscope into the bile and pancreatic ducts.

(Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, NCI Dictionary)

A plastic, dome-shaped device, with a catheter attached to the underside used to deliver chemotherapy to the central nervous system.

(Ommaya reservoir, NCI Thesaurus)