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Catheter

//ˈkæθɪtə(ɹ)// noun

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Noun

1
A small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug, create an opening, distend a passageway, or remove fluid.
"And I humbly hope, that the Deſcription, and the Method of uſing this Catheter, will be a means of reviving an Operation ſo happily begun, and calculated for the Good of thoſe that are afflicted with the Stone in the Bladder."
2
a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French cathéter, from Late Latin cathetēr, from Ancient Greek καθετήρ (kathetḗr, “surgical instrument for emptying the bladder”), from καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to descend, let down”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, suffix forming masculine nouns from verbs).

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