curette

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

curette (plural curettes)

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

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

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

Verb

curette (third-person singular simple present curettes, present participle curetting, simple past and past participle curetted)

(transitive, medicine) To scrape with a curette.

Translations

to scrape with a curette

Finnish: kaapia (fi)

Portuguese: curetar (pt)

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