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- French · borrowed fromcurette
- English todaycurette
Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
curette
Today it means: A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue. Full definition →
French curette