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curette
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cu·rette also cu·ret  (ky-rt)
n.
A surgical instrument shaped like a scoop or spoon, used to remove tissue or growths from a body cavity.
[French, from Old French, from curer, to cure, from Latin crre, to take care of, from cra, care; see cure.]
curette or curet
Noun
a surgical instrument for scraping tissue from body cavities
Verb
[-retting, -retted]
to scrape with a curette [French]
curettage n
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Noun1.curette - a surgical instrument shaped like a scoop to remove tissue from a bodily cavity
curet
surgical instrument - a medical instrument used in surgery
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In one early series of patients with brown recluse spider bites, Hollabaugh and Fernandes advocated curetting the subcutaneous tissue in the necrotic area of the lesion to prevent the local destructive actions of the toxin.
Brown recluse spider bites to the head: three cases and a review by Itani, Kamel / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
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