Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette;
[syn: curettage, curettement]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
curettage \cu`ret*tage"\ (k[=u]`r[e^]*t[aum]zh" or
k[=u]*r[e^]t"[asl]j), n.
surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as
the uterus) by scraping with a curette; the act of scraping
with a curette.
Syn: curettement.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
curettage
n 1: surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity
(as the uterus) by scraping with a curette [syn:
curettage, curettement]