curette
/kjʊˈɹɛt/
curette noun: a hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
Noun
curette (plural curettes)
- A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
- 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.2008, Cecilia Gorrel, Small Animal Dentistry, Elsevier (Saunders), page 223
- 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.2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page
Verb
curette (third-person singular simple present curettes, present participle curetting, simple past and past participle curetted)
- To scrape with a curette.
curette meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian
curette in Tamil
- கருப்பை வளிப்பி, சுரண்டி
curette in Arabic
- surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
- مِجْرَفة mijrafa, مِكْشَطة mikšaṭa
curette in Indonesian
- surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue
- kuret
Forms of curette
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | curettes |
| alternative form | curet |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | curettes |
| present participle | curetting |
| past participle | curetted |
| past | curetted |
Origin of curette
Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).
Words formed from curette
Words that rhyme with curette
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- upset
- vignette
- whet
- sett
- cornet
- let
- manchette
- roulette
- yet
- cadet
- cassette
- collarette
- forget
- pet
- banquette
- met
- mignonette
- musette
- octet
- reset
- unset
- abet
- beget
- brunette
- cuvette
- debt
- dinette
- dudette
- duet
- minuet
- navette
- planchette
- quartet
- regret
- silhouette
- vinaigrette
- aid and abet
- amourette
- barrette
- bavette
- bet
- brett
- briquette
- corvette
- couchette
- enucleate
- fossette
- grisette
Questions about curette
- What does curette mean?
- Curette means a hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.
- What is curette in Tamil?
- Curette in Tamil is கருப்பை வளிப்பி, சுரண்டி. See Curette meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is curette?
- Curette can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce curette?
- Curette is pronounced /kjʊˈɹɛt/.
- What is the plural of curette?
- The plural of curette is curettes.
Words near curette in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: curette (page history and authors); curette (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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