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語源

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

発音

• IPA: /kjʊˈɹɛt/
• 韻: -ɛt

名詞

curette (plural curettes)

1. (medicine, dentistry) A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
   • 2008, Cecilia Gorrel, Small Animal Dentistry‎, Elsevier (Saunders), page 223:

     Curettes are used for the subgingival removal of dental deposits and for root planing. They can also be used supragingivally. The working tip of a curette is more slender than that of a scaler.

   • 2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page:

     Beginning in the 1880s, the curette quickly became the popular choice for those doctors on the lookout for instrumental aid in cases of pregnancy loss.

   • 2020, Yu Matsumoto, 10: Bone Curette Handle for Improved Bone Removal in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Seiji Kakehata, Tsukasa Ito, Daisuke Yamauchi (editors), Innovations in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Springer, page 86,

     Curettes with an octagonal-shaped shaft are readily available and widely distributed in Japan.

派生語

動詞

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

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