curette

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kjʊˈɹɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

curette (plural curettes)

2. (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.

Derived terms

• curetter
• microcurette

Translations

surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue

Arabic: مِجْرَفة f (mijrafa), مِكْشَطة f (mikšaṭa) Catalan: cureta f, cullereta (ca) f Dutch: curette (nl) f Estonian: kürett Finnish: kaavin (fi), kyretti (fi) French: curette (fr) f German: Kürette (de) f Greek: ξέστρο (el) n (xéstro) Ido: kureto (io) Indonesian: kuret (id) Italian: curette f Japanese: キュレット, キューレット, 掻爬器 (souhaki) Macedonian: кирета f (kireta) Portuguese: cureta (pt) f Russian: кюре́тка (ru) f (kjurétka) Spanish: legra (es) f

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Chinese: Mandarin: (please verify) 刮匙 (zh), (please verify) 耳挖 (zh) (ěrwā), (please verify) 用刮匙刮

Verb

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

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

Translations

to scrape with a curette

Finnish: kaapia (fi) Polish: łyżeczkować impf Portuguese: curetar (pt) Spanish: legrar (es)

French

Noun

curette f (plural curettes)

1. curette

Further reading

• “curette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.