curettage
(kū″rĕ-tăzh′)
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[Fr.]
1. Scraping of a cavity.
SYN: SEE: curettement
2. The use of a curet in removal of necrotic tissue from around the tooth, dental granulomata, or cysts and tissue fragments or debris from the bony socket after tooth extraction; also called débridement.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Curettage." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743554/2/curettage.
Curettage. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743554/2/curettage. Accessed September 7, 2024.
Curettage. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743554/2/curettage
Curettage [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 September 07]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/743554/2/curettage.
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