CURETTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does curettage mean? 

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

1. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURETTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

curettage; curettement

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

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

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

suction curettage; vacuum aspiration (a method of induced abortion; prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix)

Holonyms ("curettage" is a part of...):

D and C; dilatation and curettage; dilation and curettage (a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion)

 Context examples 

In some cases, you may need a procedure called a dilatation and curettage (D&C) to remove tissue remaining in the uterus.

(Miscarriage, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Surgical curettage is the treatment of choice.

(Osteoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is treated with enucleation and curettage.

(Ameloblastic Fibrodentinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called D&C and dilatation and curettage.

(Dilation and curettage, NCI Dictionary)

Also called dilatation and curettage and dilation and curettage.

(D&C, NCI Dictionary)

Also called D&C and dilation and curettage.

(Dilatation and curettage, NCI Dictionary)

A minor operation in which the cervix is expanded enough (dilation) to permit the cervical canal and uterine lining to be scraped with a spoon-shaped instrument called a curette (curettage).

(Dilation and curettage, NCI Dictionary)