| shredder | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. shredder | a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them). |
| ~ device | an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose.; "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water" |
| curettement | | |
| n. (act) | 1. curettage, curettement | surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette. |
| ~ suction curettage, vacuum aspiration | a method of induced abortion; prior to the 14th week of gestation the embryo and placenta are removed by applying suction to the dilated cervix. |
| ~ d and c, dilatation and curettage, dilation and curettage | a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion. |
| ~ surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery" |
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