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curette
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cu·rette or cu·ret (ky-rt)
n.
A surgical instrument shaped like a scoop or spoon, used to remove tissue or growths from a body cavity.
v.
To scrape tissue or a body part with a curette.

Curette
A small scoop-shaped surgical instrument that can be used to remove cerumen if irrigation does not work or cannot be used.

curette [ku-ret´]
1. a loop, ring, or spoon-shaped instrument, attached to a handle and having sharp or blunt edges; used to scrape tissue from a surface.
2. to remove growths or other material from the wall of a cavity or other surface, using a curette.

curette,
n See curet.

curette, curet
1. a spoon-shaped instrument for cleansing a diseased surface.
2. to use a curette.

bone curette
there are a number of types, e.g. brun bone curette, nail-hole curette.


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The warning letter cited the firm's production of obstetrical and gynecological devices for validation failures that included failure to: provide evidence that installation and operation qualification activities were performed; that validation work documented rigid curette size or the number of curettes to be tested; and that injection molding process parameters "were outside the parameters found as acceptable in the current process validation.
HEBU Medical, a German-based manufacturer of high-end surgical equipment, unveiled its Neuroline[TM] line of surgical curettes late last year, the first of its kind employing a titanium shaft connected to Radel[R] R polyphenylsulfone (PPSU) handles over-molded with silicone rubber.
I can do a more complete discectomy with this system than with conventional curettes and pituitary rongeurs.
 
 
 
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