Definition of Catheterize

1. Verb. Insert a catheter into (a body part). "Catheterize the patient's bladder"

Exact synonyms: Catheterise
Generic synonyms: Enclose, Inclose, Insert, Introduce, Put In, Stick In
Derivative terms: Catheter, Catheterisation, Catheterization, Catheter

Definition of Catheterize

1. v. t. To operate on with a catheter.

Definition of Catheterize

1. Verb. To introduce a catheter into part of the body. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Catheterize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catheterize

catheter
catheter a demeure
catheter ablation
catheter coude
catheter fever
catheter gauge
catheter guide
catheterisation
catheterisations
catheterise
catheterised
catheterises
catheterising
catheterization
catheterizations
catheterize (current term)
catheterized
catheterizes
catheterizing
catheterostat
catheters
catheti
cathetometer
cathetus
cathexes
cathexis
cathine
cathinone
cathisma
cathismas

Literary usage of Catheterize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical lectures on the diseases of women and children by Gunning S. Bedford (1864)
"Is it possible to catheterize the Fallopian Tubes?—Dr. Tyler Smith's Operation.— Mammae and Uterus; sympathies between.—Stricture of the Cervix Uteri a ..."

2. Urology: Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Male Genital Organs by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1917)
"Then recur- catheterize one ureter rence of bladder symptoms. Diagnosis by Fig. 94. with scarcely more pain than would be involved in the introduction of a ..."

3. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1898)
"For soir.e time we were content to catheterize the female ureters and that not without attendant and obvious difficulties. These have been largely removed ..."

4. Diseases of the genito-urinary organs and the kidney by Robert Holmes Greene, Harlow Brooks (1912)
"How to catheterize the Ureters with the Ureteral Catheter Cystoscope of the Straight Type.—So long as the operator is not thoroughly familiar with the ..."

5. Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing by Edward Parker Davis (1901)
"If he gives no definite instructions, and if he tells the nurse to catheterize the patient, she may proceed, we think, properly as follows : The external ..."

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