DILATATION AND CURETTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dilatation and curettage mean? 

• DILATATION AND CURETTAGE (noun)
  The noun DILATATION AND CURETTAGE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: DILATATION AND CURETTAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DILATATION AND CURETTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

D and C; dilatation and curettage; dilation and curettage

Hypernyms ("dilatation and curettage" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Meronyms (parts of "dilatation and curettage"):

curettage; curettement (surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette)

 Context examples 

In some cases, you may need a procedure called a dilatation and curettage (D&C) to remove tissue remaining in the uterus.

(Miscarriage, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Also called D&C and dilatation and curettage.

(Dilation and curettage, NCI Dictionary)

Also called dilatation and curettage and dilation and curettage.

(D&C, NCI Dictionary)