âºâº Definition: Inch. An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot.The inch is usually the universal unit of measurement in the United States, and is widely used in the United Kingdom, and Canada, despite the introduction of metric to the latter two in the 1960s and 1970s, respectively.âº Definition: Inch. An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot.
Suttee: Suttee, the Indian custom of a wife immolating herself either on the funeral pyre of her dead husband or in some other fashion soon after his death. Although never widely
A curette is a surgical instrument designed for scraping or debriding biological tissue or debris in a biopsy, excision, or cleaning procedure. In form, the curette is a small hand tool, often similar in shape to a stylus; at the tip of the curette is a small scoop, hook, or gouge.The verb to curette means to scrape with a curette, and curettage (/ËkÊÉrÉ¨ËtÉËÊ/ or /ËkjÊÉrÉ¨ËtÉËÊ/) is treatment that involves such scraping.Some examples of medical use of a curette include: 1  the removal of impacted ear wax. 2  dilation and curettage of the uterus, a gynecologic procedure.3  excision of the adenoids (adenoidectomy) by an otolaryngologist. 4  to scrape tartar deposits from tooth enamel with a periodontal curette.ome examples of medical use of a curette include: 1  the removal of impacted ear wax. 2  dilation and curettage of the uterus, a gynecologic procedure. 3  excision of the adenoids (adenoidectomy) by an otolaryngologist. 4  to scrape tartar deposits from tooth enamel with a periodontal curette.