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plural curettes
(medicine, dentistry) A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue. quotations examples
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.
2008, Cecilia Gorrel, Small Animal Dentistry, Elsevier (Saunders), page 223
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.
2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page
Curettes with an octagonal-shaped shaft are readily available and widely distributed in Japan.
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
third-person singular simple present curettes, present participle curetting, simple past and past participle curetted
(transitive, medicine) To scrape with a curette. examples