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Definition: Curettage |
CurettageNoun1. Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Food & Agriculture | A)any significant reduction in the fertility of a soil, whether in the course of its natural development or by direct or indirect human action; b)the changing of a soil to a more highly leached and more highly weathered condition, generally accompanied by morphological changes, e. g. development of an A2 horizon(USA). Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Removal of tissue with a curette, a spoon-shaped instrument with a sharp edge. (references) |
Medicine | The removal of tissue with a curette. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: CurettageSynonym: curettement (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Curettage |
| Specialty definitions using "curettage": Lipectomy ♦ Root Planing. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Curettage" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (curettage), Dutch (curettage), Italian (curettage). |
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Health | Removal of a suspicious lesion by shaving or curettage is not recommended. (references) | |
At the initial dental evaluation, all cancer patients should undergo thorough oral hygiene procedures, including root planing, scaling, and curettage. (references) | ||
Management modalities for HSIL are established and include colposcopy-directed biopsy and endocervical curettage followed by conization with scalpel, cautery, laser, or loop electrocautery excision procedure. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Curettage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Curettage" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.14% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "curettage": dilatation and curettage ♦ dilation and curettage ♦ endocervical curettage ♦ Subgingival Curettage ♦ suction curettage ♦ Vacuum Curettage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dilation and curettage | 95 |
dilatation curettage | 49 |
curettage | 30 |
dialation and curettage | 9 |
endocervical curettage | 7 |
dilation curettage procedure | 4 |
suction curettage | 3 |
curettage dilation video | 3 |
curettage dilation picture | 3 |
after curettage dilation | 3 |
complication curettage dilation | 2 |
curettage dilitation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "curettage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | curettage (curettage of the uterus, curetting, scooping, uterine abrasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | curettage (curettage of the uterus, uterine abrasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | radikaalipoisto (curettement), kohdunkaavinta (curettage of the uterus, manual curettage, uterine abrasion), kohdun abraasio (curettage of the uterus, uterine abrasion), abrasio mucosae uteri (curettage of the uterus, uterine abrasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | curettage utérin (curettage of the uterus), curettage dentinaire, curettage (curettage of the uterus), curetage utérin (curettage of the uterus), curetage dentinaire, curetage (curettage of the uterus), curage (curettement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kürettage (curettage of the uterus, uterine abrasion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκρίζωση με το δάκτυλο (curettement), απόξεση μήτρας (curettage of the uterus, uterine abrasion), απόξεση (abrasion, scrape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'רי"" (abrasion, scraping, scratching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | curettage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 掻爬 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうは (contending for victory, runningthe whole distance, struggling for supremacy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 인공 임 중 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | utskrapning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urettagecay curetagem (curettage of the uterus, excision, removal, uterine abrasion). (various references) chiuretaj (curettement). (various references) raspado (rasping, scrape, scraping), legrado (scraping). (various references) skrapning (dilatation and curettage, scrape). (various references) kürtaj (abortion). (various references) вискоблювання (attrition, scraping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abrasio mucosae uteri. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "curettage": curettages. (additional references) | |
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"Curettage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Coretta, Kuretake. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: eructate. | |
-2 letters: curette, curtate, cuttage. | |
-3 letters: acuter, catgut, cerate, create, curate, cutter, ecarte, ergate, getter, guttae, gutter, rugate, target, tauter, tercet. | |
-4 letters: acute, agree, arete, argue, auger, cager, caret, carte, cater, crate, cruet, curet, cuter, eager, eagre, eater, egret, erect, eruct, grace, grate, great, greet, gutta, ragee, react, recta, recut, retag, rugae, tacet, targe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: curettages. | |
+3 letters: counteragent. | |
+4 letters: counteragents. | |
+5 letters: ultraenergetic. | |
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