catheter

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  1. noun A hollow flexible tube for insertion into a body cavity, duct, or vessel to allow the passage of fluids or distend a passageway. Its uses include the drainage of urine from the bladder through the urethra or insertion through a blood vessel into the heart for diagnostic purposes.

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  • _So we killed the whales off after all, he thought. —  A World Out of Time
  • At the tip of the catheter is a balloon which is gently inflated to widen the narrowed heart valve. —  Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
  • Valley City, N.D., photographers Clint Saunders and Daron W. Krueger focused on their home state with their most recent project, "Obsessed W.th North Dakota." —  The Daily News - News
  • The active tip and a few thin metal bracelets around the circumference of the catheter are the only rigid parts of the device. —  IEEE Spectrum
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  1. Late Latin, from Greek kathetēr, from kathīenai, kathe-, to send down : kat-, kata-, cata- + hīenai, to send; see yē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French cathéter = Spanish cateter = Portuguese catheter = Italian catetere = D. G. Danish katheter = Swedish kateter, from Late Latin catheter, from Greek καθετήρ, a catheter, a plug, from κάθετος, let down, perpendicular, from καθιέναι, send down, let down, thrust in, from κατά down, + ίέναι, send, causative of ἰέναι = Latin ire, go: see go.
 

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/ˈkæθɛtər/
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