| VERB | change | catheterize, catheterise | insert a catheter into (a body part) |
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| Meaning | insert a catheter into (a body part). | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "catheterize the patient's bladder" | |
| Synonym | catheterise | |
| Broader | insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce | introduce |
| Spanish | cateterizar, entubar | |
| Catalan | intubar | |
| Nouns | catheter | a thin flexible tube inserted into the body to permit introduction or withdrawal of fluids or to keep the passageway open |
| catheterization | the operation of introducing a catheter into the body | |
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