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Catheter   Listen
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Catheter  n.  (Med.) 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.
Eustachian catheter. See under Eustachian.
Prostatic catheter, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate.






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"Catheter" Quotes from Famous Books



... that matter, several times a day. But as physicians came to know more of the relations of bacteria to inflammation of the bladder, they grew more cautious, and preferred to wait a long time before resorting to the catheter. The reward of this patience was to find that, with remarkably few exceptions, puerperal women ultimately void of their own accord. Accordingly catheterization after child-birth is now postponed, and is never performed until ...
— The Prospective Mother - A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy • J. Morris Slemons



Words linked to "Catheter" :   tubing, tube, catheterize



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