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    CURETTEMENT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curetteplay

    Synonyms:

    curettage; curettement

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("curettement" is a kind of...):

    operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "curettement"):

    suction curettage; vacuum aspiration (a method of induced abortion; prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix)

    Holonyms ("curettement" is a part of...):

    D and C; dilatation and curettage; dilation and curettage (a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion)

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