How to Use catheter in a Sentence

catheter

noun

• Five days later, the catheter came out and all the pain was over.
  — Marie Claire, 24 June 2015
• His blood was drawn from a catheter in his vein and run through a centrifuge to separate out the stem cells.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2024
• Similar coatings could make stents, catheters, and IV lines safer.
  — Sarah Zhang, WIRED, 20 July 2016
• The small catheter in his lower back would relieve pressure from the fluid, allowing the incision to heal.
  — Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2010
• The ultrasound is over and Hildebrandt is struggling to insert the carbon-fibre catheter into her uterus.
  — Henry Nicholls, Scientific American, 30 May 2012
• Other bears live with a catheter permanently hooked up to their gallbladders, according to the Telegraph.
  — National Geographic, 5 May 2016
• Unfortunately, humans can’t do this, though Drew has heard of proposals such as using rectal catheters.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 18 Jan. 2017
• The catheters record the electrical signals, charting the path of electrical impulses during each heartbeat.
  — Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 12 Sep. 2024
• The colon proximal to the retained device was gently inflated with air via the unclamped catheter using a 50-ml syringe.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2013
• The actual insertion of the needle and catheter (the tiny tube that delivers the medicine) is timed to be done between contractions so that the pregnant person can hold still.
  — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 22 July 2024
• Melton’s method produces millions of the insulin-secreting cells, which were then fed through a catheter to the kidney capsules of 37 diabetic mice.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2014
• Puntung's cervix, tightly constricted owing to the phase of her menstrual cycle, is proving a serious obstacle to the catheter.
  — Henry Nicholls, Scientific American, 30 May 2012
• Medical Daily reports doctors were able to stitch the man's bladder back together, but the patient will likely have to use a catheter for a few weeks until things are totally back to normal.
  — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 2 Nov. 2015
• The needle is removed, and the tube, called a catheter, is taped in place.
  — Kristi Pahr, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
• 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
• His bladder was drained and he was sent home again this time with a catheter.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
• The next day, a nurse arrived at the motel, removed the catheter and put her in a taxi to the airport.
  — Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Many of the patients on the 20-bed unit have had surgery or a catheter procedure to fix a faulty heart valve.
  — Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Next the robot lifted this frame and moved it to a trimmer that ejected the catheters.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2017
• Only three tubes remain: an IV in my arm, a tube up my butt, and a catheter.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• DuPont initially thought the idea of a self-driving catheter was a bit crazy.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019
• The doctor then inserts the catheter into the femoral artery at the top of the thigh and threads it up to the opening between the heart and the aorta.
  — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The first system in use was a catheter shaped like a condom, Etlin explained.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
• Ringer threaded a fine-gauge catheter into Deuer’s femoral artery, through her body, and then into the brain to the aneurysm.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2017
• Surgery Goes Wireless The catheter inched down the middle-aged man's coronary artery.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• In certain situations, the catheter may be in the right place, but just not deep enough.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Oct. 2018
• 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

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024