catheter
noun
cath·e·ter
ˈka-thə-tər 
ˈkath-tər
: a tubular medical device for insertion into canals, vessels, passageways, or body cavities usually to permit injection or withdrawal of fluids or to keep a passage open compare balloon catheter
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As the 62-year-old watches the giant fly across the ring landing on top of his opponent, a respiratory therapist suctions Carlson's lungs, and a nurse checks his catheter.
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Dan Gorenstein, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
Then, with a catheter, needles, and wire, the surgeon essentially builds and connects a new road next to the clogged artery to relieve some of the traffic.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 22 Mar. 2024
It is used to clean everything from catheters to syringes, pacemakers and plastic surgical gowns.
—Matthew Daly, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
In the past doctors have sometimes coated catheters’ interior walls with antibiotic drugs or metallic agents such as silver to kill bacteria.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2024
The pump delivered a continuous stream of drugs through a catheter threaded directly into a large vein in her body to help keep her blood vessels open.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
It’s used to sanitize 20 billion devices in the U.S. per year, such as pacemakers, catheters, and ventilators.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 14 Mar. 2024
Doctors inserted her first PICC line, a catheter that runs from the upper arm to the heart, delivers antibiotics, and stays in place longer than an IV.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
Other species are also known to colonize catheters and cause infection, however.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2024
Dan Gorenstein, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
Then, with a catheter, needles, and wire, the surgeon essentially builds and connects a new road next to the clogged artery to relieve some of the traffic.
—Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 22 Mar. 2024
It is used to clean everything from catheters to syringes, pacemakers and plastic surgical gowns.
—Matthew Daly, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
In the past doctors have sometimes coated catheters’ interior walls with antibiotic drugs or metallic agents such as silver to kill bacteria.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2024
The pump delivered a continuous stream of drugs through a catheter threaded directly into a large vein in her body to help keep her blood vessels open.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
It’s used to sanitize 20 billion devices in the U.S. per year, such as pacemakers, catheters, and ventilators.
—Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 14 Mar. 2024
Doctors inserted her first PICC line, a catheter that runs from the upper arm to the heart, delivers antibiotics, and stays in place longer than an IV.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2024
Other species are also known to colonize catheters and cause infection, however.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2024
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catheter
noun
cath·e·ter
ˈkath-ət-ər, ˈkath-tər
: a tubular medical device for insertion into canals, vessels, passageways, or body cavities for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes (as to permit injection or withdrawal of fluids or to keep a passage open)
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