Of the use of the ear scoop as a curette we have several instances.
Thorough cauterization by means of caustic potash or the galvano-cautery; or, its extirpation by means of the curette or excision.
Upon the whole, the best method in the average case is to curette thoroughly, and supplement with momentary cauterization, with caustic potash, or with several days' use of the pyrogallic acid ointment.
Scraping the affected parts with a blunt curette is a valuable measure, but is temporarily disfiguring.
The use of the curette supposes a special technic, and no physician should presume to try its use unless he has been carefully and practically instructed.
Should the temperature remain above 100 degrees, the uterus must be cleaned out, and flushing with uterine catheters is not enough: if the gloved finger cannot remove the secundines, the curette is needed.
If a uterus is flexed it is easy to poke a curette or like instrument through it at the bend, especially if the uterus is thin or friable from sepsis.
Some advise that the physician should go over the uterine lining with a half-sharp curette to make certain that nothing has been left behind, but this is dangerous advice to any one who is not an expert obstetrician.
That the puncture to admit the curette is large enough; 2.
The curette is of the usual size, but is roofed in (instead of being merely grooved) to within one line of its extremity, thus forming a tube flattened above, but terminating in a small cup.
The curette should not be used on the lateral pharyngeal wall in case the Eustachian orifices and cushions are damaged.
The unguarded curette is then introduced and several strokes are made with it, the instrument being carried on either side of the mesial plane.
A probe is then passed into the ostium, and the anterior wall of the sinus is removed with a curette or rongeur forceps.
Firm pressure is then made against the vault of the naso-pharynx, and the curette is carried backwards and downwards in the mesial plane and withdrawn with the main mass of the adenoids caught in the hooks.
A, Curette inserted round handle of malleus; B, Curette pushed upwards, in act of cutting through tendon of tensor tympani muscle.
For this purpose a narrowcurette is necessary (Fig.
It is better not to curette for a purulent uterine discharge; extension of the infection may be caused and give rise to pyosalpinx.
The next step is to incise the sinus freely from above downwards towards the jugular fossa and curette out the thrombus.
If an opening be found leading directly into the antrum, it should be enlarged with the curette or gouge.
The head of the malleus is then removed either by means of a small hook or some form of curette bent at right angles to its shaft, depending on what is most suitable for the case in question.
It is especially important to curette away the mucous membrane from the orifice of the Eustachian tube in order that scar tissue may obliterate its lumen and so prevent reinfection of the middle ear from the naso-pharynx.
The curette is made to encircle the granulation and cuts through its attachment with a firm movement, limited to the area of the granulation.
After a view of the interior of the vestibule has been obtained, the ampullary nerves may be destroyed by means of the curette or with pure carbolic acid at the end of a probe.
With the curette all granulations should be removed.
In tuberculous cases it is desirable to curette the lower end of the duct after removal of the sac.
Great caution must be exercised, lest the peritoneum or bladder be opened into by the curette and the sufferings of the patient thereby increased.
Professors Hoffmann and Imminger also operate in the same way, applying an Esmarch's hæmostatic bandage, and using the knife and curette freely.
The diseased portion is scraped away either with a curette or with the point of the drawing-knife.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
