curette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

curette (plural curettes)

1. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument for cleaning a diseased surface.

Translations

spoon-shaped surgical instrument

• Arabic: مِجْرَفة f (mijrafa), مِكْشَطة f (mikšaṭa)
• Dutch: curette (nl) f
• Estonian: kürett
• Finnish: kaavin (fi), kyretti (fi)
• French: curette (fr) f
• German: Kürette f
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• Greek: ξέστρο (el) n (xéstro)
• Ido: kureto (io)
• Portuguese: cureta (pt) f
• Russian: кюре́тка (ru) f (kjurétka)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 刮匙 (zh), ^{(please verify)} 耳挖 (zh) (ěrwā), ^{(please verify)} 用刮匙刮

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Verb

curette (third-person singular simple present curett, present participle es, simple past and past participle curetted)

1. (transitive, medicine) To scrape with a curette.

Translations

to scrape with a curette

• Finnish: kaapia (fi)
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• Portuguese: curetar (pt)