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curettage

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curettage [‚kyu̇·rə′täzh]
(medicine)
Scraping of the inside of a body cavity or the hollow of an organ with a curet.


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Definitive treatment consists of removing the unerupted tooth and performing enucleation and curettage to prevent recurrence.
Pregnancies that fail in the first trimester-ones that end in embryonic or fetal death or in incomplete spontaneous abortion, ones whose inevitable outcome is spontaneous abortion and ones characterized by the absence of an embryo in the gestational sac-traditionally have been managed with dilation and curettage.
In the hospital, she underwent uterine curettage and received ampicillin, gentamicin, azithromycin, ceftriaxone, and metronidazole.
 
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