curette

English
A spoon-shaped curette in sterile packaging

Etymology

Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kjʊˈɹɛt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

curette (plural curettes)

  1. (medicine, dentistry) A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
    • 2008, Cecilia Gorrel, Small Animal Dentistry‎, Elsevier (Saunders), page 223:
      Curettes are used for the subgingival removal of dental deposits and for root planing. They can also be used supragingivally. The working tip of a curette is more slender than that of a scaler.
    • 2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page:
      Beginning in the 1880s, the curette quickly became the popular choice for those doctors on the lookout for instrumental aid in cases of pregnancy loss.
    • 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.

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Verb

curette (third-person singular simple present curettes, present participle curetting, simple past and past participle curetted)

  1. (transitive, medicine) To scrape with a curette.

Translations

French

Noun

curette f (plural curettes)

  1. curette

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