Dilation and Curettage

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a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: dilatation and curettage
plural: Dilation and Curettages
possessive: Dilation and Curettage's
pluralpossessive: Dilation and Curettages'

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