burette

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The curettes can scrape a fraction of a millimeter at a time.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2022

They operated with a tiny chisel-like instrument called an osteotome in addition to a set of instruments called curettes, "which look like little sharp ice cream scoops," said Stewart.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2022

Plastic surgeons, with their white coats and long, metal curettes , occupy the most literal niche of this shadow market: They suck fat for money.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2009

With encouraging answers to both questions, Dr. Bailey got a supply of May curettes: metal tubes, only one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter, nine inches long, with a nick filed halfway through at one end.

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