CATHETERIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catheterize mean? 

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

1. insert a catheter into (a body part)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHETERIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they catheterize    ... he / she / it catheterizes   
Past simple: catheterized   
Past participle: catheterized   
-ing form: catheterizing   

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 "catheterize" 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)

 Context examples 

G. sputi is an opportunistic pathogen, causing endocarditis and bacteremia in surgical and catheterized patients.

(Gordonia sputi, NCI Thesaurus)