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Definition: Catheter |
CatheterNoun1. A thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "catheter" was first used: 1601. (references) |
Etymology: Catheter \Cath"e*ter\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression thing let down or put in, catheter, from to send down, to let down; to send.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | A hollow tube of metal, glass, hard or soft rubber, rubberized silk, etc., for introduction into a body cavity through a narrow canal, for the purpose of discharging the fluid contents of a cavity or for establishing that the canal is unobstructed. (references) |
Health | A flexible tube used to deliver fluids into or withdraw fluids from the body. (references) |
Medicine | A small, flexible tube that may be inserted into various parts of the body to inject or remove liquids. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Gorget, male catheter and searcher used in lithotomy].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Surgery to insert a catheter into a rabbit for drug development research] / P.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Bill Branson/National Institutes of Health.. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Intrathecal (IT) catheter. (references) | |
Intracavitary (IC) catheter. (references) | ||
Catheter for temporary access. (references) | ||
Economic History | Denmark | Best sales prospects are: Infusion and transfusion equipment+ADs- cardiovascular equipment, diagnostic ultrasound equipment in general+ADs- defibrillators: cancer diagnostic/therapy equipment+ADs- monitoring equipment for anesthesia and for intensive care (respirators, etc.)+ADs- medical-related biotechnology+ADs- endoscopes+ADs- surgical lasers+ADs- catheter devices - diagnostic and therapeutic+ADs- operating-room furniture+ADs- and disposables (custom-made and cost effective). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Catheter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.19% of the time. "Catheter" is used about 127 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.19% | 112 | 30,646 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 10.24% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 127 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Electro Catheter Corp |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "catheter": Catheter Ablation ♦ central venous access catheter ♦ Eustachian catheter ♦ intravascular catheter ♦ prostatic catheter ♦ Skene catheter ♦ urine catheter. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "catheter": catheter-tube. | |
Ending with "catheter": balloon-catheter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
catheter | 494 | balloon catheter | 18 |
foley catheter | 122 | catheter fetish | 18 |
catheter play | 84 | intravenous catheter | 18 |
catheter ablation | 63 | foley catheter insertion | 18 |
catheter urinary | 52 | angioplasty catheter | 16 |
swan ganz catheter | 47 | male external catheter | 16 |
catheter sex | 39 | male catheter | 16 |
hickman catheter | 35 | peripherally inserted central catheter | 16 |
suprapubic catheter | 30 | triple lumen catheter | 15 |
heart catheter | 26 | female catheter | 13 |
penis catheter | 25 | mentor catheter | 13 |
cardiac catheter | 25 | dialysis catheter | 13 |
condom catheter | 24 | quinton catheter | 13 |
central venous catheter | 23 | urethral catheter | 12 |
catheter insertion | 22 | calculation catheter | 12 |
iv catheter | 21 | texas catheter | 12 |
catheter foley picture | 21 | urine catheter | 11 |
external catheter | 20 | suction catheter | 10 |
pulmonary artery catheter | 19 | foley catheter care | 10 |
catheter groshong | 19 | epidural catheter | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "catheter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | القسطر أنبوبة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | катетър (drain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 导尿管. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | cévka, katétr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kateter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | catheter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | katetri, johtoputki. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cathéter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | katheter (catheters). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθετήρασ (probe), καθετήρας του Foley, καθετήρας (probe, probe tube, sound), καθετήρ (probe), σφαιροειδής καθετήρας του Foley. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קתטר". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | katéter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | catetere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | カツ丼 (breaded pork on rice, cadence, cadenza, catecholamine, category, cathedral, Catholic, Catholicism, cottage cheese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | カテーテル . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | teaumane mooiney, pioban mooin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | athetercay cateter. (various references) cateter. (various references) катетер (sound). (various references) sonda (probe, sound), kateter (bougie). (various references) catéter. (various references) kateter. (various references) sonda (bore, cannula, probe, searcher, seeker, style). (various references) катетер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kathienai. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | catheter. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "catheter": catheterization, catheterizations, catheterize, catheterized, catheterizes, catheterizing, catheters. (additional references) | |
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"Catheter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acheter, atheter, Calheta, cathater, cathatre, cathected, cathecter, catheder, catherer, catherter, cathet, cathetor, cathoter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "catheter" (pronounced ka"thuter) |
| 3 | -u t er | accelerometer, altimeter, Amphitheater, anemometer, arbiter, auditor, barometer, capacitor, comparator, competitor, conservator, conspirator, contributor, creditor, densitometer, depositor, diameter, distributor, editor, elater, estimator, executor, exhibitor, fluorometer, goniometer, hydrometer, hygrometer, inheritor, inhibitor, inquisitor, interferometer, interlocutor, interpreter, janitor, kilometer, magnetometer, marketer, micrometer, monitor, odometer, orator, orbiter, parameter, perimeter, photometer, picketer, polarimeter, predator, progenitor, proprietor, quieter, rioter, Sen, senator, sequitur, solicitor, spectrometer, speedometer, telemarketer, tensiometer, Theater, theatre, thermometer, trumpeter, visitor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: chatter, cheater, hectare, ratchet, recheat, reteach, teacher, theater, theatre, thecate, thereat. | |
-2 letters: aether, cerate, create, ecarte, etcher, hatter, heater, hereat, rachet, reheat, tercet, tether, thecae, threat. | |
-3 letters: arete, caret, carte, cater, chare, chart, cheat, cheer, chert, crate, earth, eater, erect, ether, hater, heart, ratch, rathe, reach, react, recta, retch, tacet, tache, tater, teach. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: catheters, chattered, chatterer, entrechat, ratcheted, tracheate. | |
+2 letters: chatterers, entrechats, reattached, reattaches, tachometer, tracheated. | |
+3 letters: catheterize, orchestrate, parenthetic, paresthetic, stretchable, tachometers, tetrarchies, theorematic, theoretical, therapeutic, weathercast. | |
+4 letters: architecture, atheoretical, bachelorette, catheterized, catheterizes, chatterboxes, extrahepatic, metathoraces, methacrylate, orchestrated, orchestrater, orchestrates, reattachment, theoretician, therapeutics, tracheitises, tracheophyte, weathercasts. | |
+5 letters: architectures, bachelorettes, backstretches, catheterizing, counterthreat, featherstitch, hemacytometer, heterogametic, heterothallic, methacrylates, orchestraters, oystercatcher, parenthetical, preanesthetic, reattachments, reorchestrate, tetrachloride, theatricalize, theoretically, theoreticians, tracheophytes, tracheotomies, untheoretical, weathercaster. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 74 68 65 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - .... . - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a t h e t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0074 0068 0065 0074 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767867471867184 |
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