Crossword-Solution: CURETTE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Curette | n. | A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Surgical spoon | 1 answer |
| Surgery instrument | 2 answers |
| Surgeon's tool | 10 answers |
| surgical instrument | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CURETTE (5)
Remove the clot with a curette, cauterize the vessel and pack the cavity with gauze to prevent bleeding and to secure drainage.
The doctor then took the little instrument--the curette--and pushed it up back of the soft palate, and with one twist brought out the offending spongy lump.
Callous ulcers are best removed by a curette, knife, or hot iron and then treated like a common wound.
Teale, of Leeds,[87] has invented an instrument by which the removal of soft cataract is made more easy, through a linear incision by suction, applied through the medium of a hollow curette furnished with an india-rubber tube and mouth-piece.
The curette is of the usual size, but is roofed in (instead of being merely grooved) to within one line of its extremity, thus forming a tube flattened above, but terminating in a small cup.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2000–2010).