kuret

See also: küret

Danish

Verb

kuret

1. past participle of kure

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch curette, from French curette, curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkurɛt̚]
• Hyphenation: ku‧rèt
• Rhymes: -rɛt, -ɛt, -t

Noun

kurèt (plural kuret-kuret, first-person possessive kuretku, second-person possessive kuretmu, third-person possessive kuretnya)

1. curette: a spoon-shaped surgical instrument for cleaning a diseased surface.
2. apocopic form of kuretase (“curettage”)

Derived terms

• menguret
• penguretan

 

Related terms

• kuretase

 

Further reading

• “kuret” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.