How to Use dilation and curettage in a Sentence

dilation and curettage

noun

• Patients can also opt for a dilation and curettage (D&C).
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2022
• In that case, a health care provider may recommend a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 29 June 2023
• When that happens, your doctor may recommend a test called dilation and curettage.
  — Jenny McCoy, Health.com, 10 Feb. 2022
• She was readmitted to the hospital, where she was treated for a uterine infection and underwent a dilation and curettage to help clear the blood clots from her uterus.
  — Elissa Garay, Good Housekeeping, 7 Oct. 2021
• Plus, our doctor wants to do a D&C (dilation and curettage, which involves the surgical removal of part of the lining of the uterus) to get rid of the questionable inflammation because antibiotics are not working.
  — refinery29.com, 30 Nov. 2020
• For example, during an incomplete miscarriage, if the parent’s body cannot evacuate the rest of the tissue on its own, the standard of care can include a process called dilation and curettage (also known as a D&C).
  — Wired, 7 Aug. 2022
• Surgical Procedure The third option is the quickest: a dilation and curettage procedure, also called a D&C.
  — Rachel Wells, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2019
• In the latter case, Bishop says, a pregnant individual may opt to have a procedure called a dilation and curettage (D&C), during which doctors remove the tissue from inside the uterus.
  — Ashley Abramson, Allure, 30 Oct. 2020
• Following the news, Stell asked her doctor for a dilation and curettage procedure (D&C), a surgery to remove the fetus that is also used to abort a living fetus, in order to avoid infection or long-term health issues.
  — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2022
• After staunching the bleeding, an obstetrician wanted to perform a procedure called a dilation and curettage — commonly referred to as a D&C — to remove the tissue from the uterus.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 6 May 2022
• The quickest option is a surgical aspiration or a dilation and curettage, which may be performed at a doctor’s office or a hospital.
  — Jyoti Madhusoodanan, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• Her physician gave her the option of a D&C (the dilation and curettage surgical procedure) or a prescription medication.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 25 June 2018
• Given the lower efficacy rate, more patients may choose surgical options, such as a suction dilation and curettage, known as a suction D&C, in which a provider opens the cervix and places a tube inside to remove pregnancy tissue.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
• Instead, doctors eventually had to remove the deceased baby in a procedure called dilation and curettage (D&C).
  — PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• What followed was a trip to my doctor’s office for a medically necessary, unmedicated dilation and curettage procedure to remove any tissue remaining in my uterus, and a wheelchair carting me back to the car.
  — Jessica Zucker, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2020
• Medication abortions accounted for more than half, while 41% were in-clinic dilation and curettage procedures, commonly called D&C.
  — Sarah Swetlik | [e-mail], al, 6 July 2022
• After her experience with Susan, Bailey opened up about her own experience needing a D&C [dilation and curettage] after having a miscarriage and her desire to change reproductive health care.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2022
• Author’s note: This article includes quotations about miscarriage and information about dilation and curettage procedures.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 5 May 2022

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024