coudé
See also: coude
English
Etymology
French coudé.
Adjective
coudé (not comparable)
- (of a catheter) Bent at the tip at a 45° angle, like an elbow.
- 1926, Hugh H. Young; David Melvin Davis; Franklin Paradise Johnson, Young's Practice of Urology, Based on a Study of 12,500 Cases, page 469:
- Whereas the gum coudé or prostatic catheter enters more easily […]
- 2019 October 8, Alok Gupta; Daniel B. Jones, Surgery Boot Camp Manual, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 28:
- FIGURE 22.1 A, Standard 16fr two-way Foley catheter. B, 18fr two-way coudé catheter. C, 24fr three-way catheter (hematuria catheter). Coudé catheters have curved tips (Figure 22.1B). These catheters are helpful […]
- 2021 December 7, Barbara L Yoost; Lynne R Crawford, Fundamentals of Nursing E-Book: Active Learning for Collaborative Practice, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1067:
- Both Foley and coudé catheters are designed to be left in place, draining the bladder continuously or intermittently for an extended period of hours, […] .
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French
Pronunciation
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Participle
coudé (feminine coudée, masculine plural coudés, feminine plural coudées)
- past participle of couder
Further reading
- “coudé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- douce