CATHETERISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catheterise mean? 

• CATHETERISE (verb)
  The verb CATHETERISE has 1 sense:

1. insert a catheter into (a body part)

  Familiarity information: CATHETERISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHETERISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they catheterise    ... he / she / it catheterises   
Past simple: catheterised   
Past participle: catheterised   
-ing form: catheterising   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Insert a catheter into (a body part)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

catheterise; catheterize

Context example:

catheterize the patient's bladder

Hypernyms (to "catheterise" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

catheter (a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open)

catheterisation; catheterization (the operation of introducing a catheter into the body)