| cure | 1. To heal; to make well. 2. A restoration to health. 3. A special method or course of treatment. See: dental curing. Origin: L. Curo, to care for (05 Mar 2000) |
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| curet | See: curette. (05 Mar 2000) |
| curetment | <procedure, surgery> The removal of growths or other material from the wall of a cavity or other surface, as with a curet. Synonym: curettement. (18 Nov 1997) |
| curettage | <procedure, surgery> The removal of growths or other material from the wall of a cavity or other surface, as with a curet. Synonym: curettement. (18 Nov 1997) |
| 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) |
| curettement | <procedure, surgery> The removal of growths or other material from the wall of a cavity or other surface, as with a curet. Synonym: curettement. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Curie | <radiobiology> The conventional unit of activity of radioactive material decaying at a rate of 3.7 x E10 transformations per second (roughly equivalent to the activity of 1 gram of radium). See: becquerel, 1 Ci = 3.7 x E10 Bq. (16 Dec 1997) |
| curing | 1.Removing all traces of a disease from the body so that the body is perfectly healthy again. 2. A process of improving the flavour, colour, tenderness, and shelf life of a meat, such as by using smoke, spices, and chemicals. 3. Making a finished product out of a raw material by using heat or chemicals, such as tanned leather or vulcanised rubber. 4. Causing the loss of a plasmid from a bacterial culture or the loss of a dormant virus which has inserted itself into the bacterial genome (a lysogenised virus). (09 Oct 1997) |
| curing light | <dentistry> A special UV light used to help attach brackets to your teeth (08 Jan 1998) |
| curium | <chemical> A radioactive actinide with atomic symbol cm, atomic number 96, and atomic weight 247. Thirteen curium isotopes have been produced with mass numbers ranging from 238-250. Its valence can be +3 or +4. It is intensely radioactive and decays by alpha-emission. Chemical name: Curium (12 Dec 1998) |
| curlicue ureter | Term given to the radiographic appearance of an opacified ureter, herniated through the sciatic foramen; a very rare condition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Curling's ulcer | An ulcer of the duodenum in a patient with extensive superficial burns, intracranial lesions, or severe bodily injury. Synonym: stress ulcers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Curling, Thomas | <person> English surgeon, 1811-1888. See: Curling's ulcer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| currant jelly clot | A jelly-like mass of red blood cells and fibrin formed by the in vitro or postmortem clotting of whole or sedimented blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| current | <chemistry> The amount of charge carried per unit time. (09 Jan 1998) |