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- noun Plural form of
curette .
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Examples
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The Veteran Medical curettes have an hourglass-shaped, ribbed handle [] that is flat on one side.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The Bionix curettes have a straight, elongated, smooth, octagon shaped handle with a flat rectangular-shaped recess (‘the notch’) in the middle of one side of the handle.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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We use only sterilized surgical instruments and sterile, one-use-only, disposable plastic uterine curettes.
If it didn't come from an abortion clinic... Suzanne 2006
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The following instruments are necessary: two Gottstein's adenoid curettes, one provided with a cradle and hooks, the other without, a Hartmann's lateral ring knife, and one pair of adenoid forceps -- Kuhn's or
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The transverse processes, sacral alae, and the lateral walls of the facet joints are decorticated with high-speed burs and curettes.
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The transverse processes, sacral alae, and the lateral walls of the facet joints are decorticated with high-speed burs and curettes.
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Disposable, single-use medical instruments such as specula or containers, reusable surgical instruments such as surgical scissors, surgical blades, tissue forceps, dilators and curettes, as well as instrument stands, trays and many other medical accessories are extensively used in all medical facilities from various medical fields, rendering such equipment indispensable for medical practice.
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The Bionix curettes have a straight, elongated, smooth, octagon shaped handle with a flat rectangular-shaped recess ( 'the notch') in the middle of one side of the handle.
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Jody's rapid success in learning to maneuver the dilating clamps, curettes, and forceps demystified the forbidden procedures for another half dozen women in Jane.
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Jody’s rapid success in learning to maneuver the dilating clamps, curettes, and forceps demystified the forbidden procedures for another half dozen women in Jane.
Roe v. Wade Day #36 2009
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