catheter

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkæθɪtə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈkæθɪtɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small tube inserted into a body cavity to administer a drug, create an opening, distend a passageway, or remove fluid.
    — And I humbly hope, that the Deſcription, and the Method of uſing this Catheter, will be a means of reviving an Operation ſo happily begun, and calculated for the Good of thoſe that are afflicted with the Stone in the Bladder.

词形变化

catheters plural

词源

Borrowed from French cathéter, from Late Latin cathetēr, from Ancient Greek καθετήρ (kathetḗr, “surgical instrument for emptying the bladder”), from καθίημι (kathíēmi, “to descend, let down”) + -τήρ (-tḗr, suffix forming masculine nouns from verbs).
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