Associations to the word «Catheter»

Wiktionary

CATHETER, noun. (medicine) A small tube inserted into a body cavity to remove fluid, create an opening, distend a passageway or administer a drug

Dictionary definition

CATHETER, noun. A thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne