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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Catheter

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CATH'ETER (καθετήρ). Properly, a Greek word, for which the Romans used fistula aenea (Celsus, vii. 26. 1.); a catheter, or surgical instrument employed in drawing off the water, when suppressed, from the bladder, into which it is inserted. Cael. Aurel. Tard. ii. 1. n. 13.) The example (Catheter/1.1) is from an original, nine inches long, discovered at Pompeii.

  • Catheter/1.1
    Catheter/1.1

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