General surgerySpecial
Curette
Instrument with a spoon-shaped or sharp-edged ring tip.
How it is used
Scraping and clearing tissue from cavities (bone, cysts); in gynecology, uterine curettage (retained products of conception, incomplete miscarriage).
Sources
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History
Added to the catalog on 2026-09-29.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.