Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun curettage

1 sense of curettage

Sense 1
curettage, curettement -- (surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette)
       => operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process -- (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")