| Hartmann's curette | A curette, cutting on the side, for the removal of adenoids. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| curette | A spoon-shaped instrument with a sharp edge. The word curette comes from the French and means a scraper. The French verb curer is to scrape clean. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Hartmann, Alexis | <person> U.S. Paediatrician, 1898-1964. See: Hartmann's solution, Shaffer-Hartmann method. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hartmann, Arthur | <person> German laryngologist, 1849-1931. See: Hartmann's curette. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hartmann, Henri | <person> French surgeon, 1860-1952. See: Hartmann's operation, Hartmann's pouch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hartmann's operation | Resection of the rectosigmoid colon beginning at or just above the peritoneal reflexion and extending proximally, with closure of the rectal stump and end-colostomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hartmann's solution | A solution containing NaCl, sodium lactate, CaCl2(dihydrate), and KCl in distilled water; used for the same purposes as Ringer's solution. Synonym: Hartmann's solution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shaffer-Hartmann method | An obsolete method for the quantitative determination of glucose in biological fluids, based on the reduction of copper by the reducing group of the sugar. (05 Mar 2000) |