CATHETER
\kˈaθɛtə], \kˈaθɛtə], \k_ˈa_θ_ɛ_t_ə]\
Definitions of CATHETER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.
By Oddity Software
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The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.
By Noah Webster.
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Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity for injecting or withdrawing fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It differs from INTUBATION in that the tube here is used to restore or maintain patency in obstructions.
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By William R. Warner
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A hollow tube, introduced by surgeons into the urinary bladder, for the purpose of drawing off the urine. Catheters are made of silver or elastic gum. See Bougie. The French generally use the word catheter for the solid sound or staff; and algalie and sonde for the hollow instrument.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A tube designed for insertion into a canal, especially through the urethra into the urinary bladder; of the French, a lithotomy staff.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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