How to Use catheter in a Sentence

catheter

noun

• The result was bruising around the monkey’s thigh and at the catheter site.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• This wire mesh, placed inside the catheter, retrieves the blood clot.
  — Alyssa Hui, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
• The doctor then fills the balloon with about 2½ cups of water and pulls the catheter out of the patient’s mouth.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Only three tubes remain: an IV in my arm, a tube up my butt, and a catheter.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• Surgery Goes Wireless The catheter inched down the middle-aged man's coronary artery.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• The nurse applied a rubber band to my arm to find the right vein, then gently inserted the catheter.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 31 July 2023
• The surgery was needed to insert a catheter in his neck for dialysis.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• Those can include extra-long tweezers or a catheter with a balloon on the end.
  — Markian Hawryluk and Heidi De Marco, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Others are overwhelmed by the prospect of having to keep the area around the catheter clean to prevent infection.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2021
• Sung has even heard the noise while inserting a catheter into a patient.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
• Then the wire comes out, and a catheter is fed through the sheath and guided up through the larger arteries into a blood vessel in the neck.
  — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• The following night, Dr. Shelchkov placed an epidural catheter.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• Then they were told that the family would need to find their own catheter for the transfusion — the hospital didn’t have any.
  — Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• There has been speculation about his health as he’s been spotted with a catheter in his arm this month.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
• The next day, Kelly had a catheter inserted into his right shoulder to treat a blood clot.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2020
• He was given a catheter at the time, and the doctor looked inside his bladder and said everything looked OK.
  — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
• Securing the catheter of a central line to a vein in a Covid patient, Ibrahim ties the knots on top of the groove just the way his surgery mentor Lena Napolitano showed him.
  — Elliott Woods, Wired, 3 May 2020
• The embryologist emerges from the next room with the catheter (a giant tube) in hand, and slowly transfers it to the doctor’s hands.
  — refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
• The doctor was then called to treat an elderly Black man who tried to remove his urinary catheter.
  — Andy Mannix, Star Tribune, 23 May 2021
• The first responders were able to place a catheter to the heart to provide rapid blood infusion, a similar concept to what the army has done in the field.
  — Paul Wedding, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2020
• Simply apply to the affected area using the catheter tip.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
• The baby was still in surgery to install the catheter for dialysis when Dimmock approached the parents in the waiting room.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• One aide left a wet sheet under a resident whose catheter was leaking.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 19 Apr. 2020
• In some of those cases, inserting a catheter has allowed the men to pass urine while allowing the surface of the urethra to heal.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
• The patients who received the cell therapy were delivered about 150 million stem cells to the heart through a catheter.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• Another could handle their catheter well enough to insert it on their own.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
• Then, with a catheter, needles, and wire, the surgeon essentially builds and connects a new road next to the clogged artery to relieve some of the traffic.
  — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 22 Mar. 2024
• But hose require big IVs and arterial catheters to use, so there’s some danger in that.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE.com, 1 Apr. 2020
• In this procedure, Meredith would introduce a slender catheter into one of the vessels of the man’s wrist and thread it up the arm to the chest and then into the heart.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The specimen can be collected either by a nasal swab or by a saline wash using a small catheter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024