curettement
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1. surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette (noun.act)
| hyponym | : | suction curettage, vacuum aspiration, |
| definition | : | a method of induced abortion; prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix (noun.act) |
| part meronym | : | d and c, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage, |
| definition | : | a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion (noun.act) |
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