How to Use catheter in a Sentence

catheter

noun

• Five days later, the catheter came out and all the pain was over.
  — Marie Claire, 24 June 2015
• The needle is removed, and the tube, called a catheter, is taped in place.
  — Kristi Pahr, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
• The result was bruising around the monkey’s thigh and at the catheter site.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• This wire mesh, placed inside the catheter, retrieves the blood clot.
  — Alyssa Hui, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
• His bladder was drained and he was sent home again this time with a catheter.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
• The next day, a nurse arrived at the motel, removed the catheter and put her in a taxi to the airport.
  — Matthew Goldstein and Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2018
• The doctor then fills the balloon with about 2½ cups of water and pulls the catheter out of the patient’s mouth.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Many of the patients on the 20-bed unit have had surgery or a catheter procedure to fix a faulty heart valve.
  — Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Next the robot lifted this frame and moved it to a trimmer that ejected the catheters.
  — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2017
• Only three tubes remain: an IV in my arm, a tube up my butt, and a catheter.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 May 2021
• DuPont initially thought the idea of a self-driving catheter was a bit crazy.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019
• The doctor then inserts the catheter into the femoral artery at the top of the thigh and threads it up to the opening between the heart and the aorta.
  — Howard Lewine, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
• The first system in use was a catheter shaped like a condom, Etlin explained.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
• His blood was drawn from a catheter in his vein and run through a centrifuge to separate out the stem cells.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2024
• Ringer threaded a fine-gauge catheter into Deuer’s femoral artery, through her body, and then into the brain to the aneurysm.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 24 May 2017
• Surgery Goes Wireless The catheter inched down the middle-aged man's coronary artery.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• In certain situations, the catheter may be in the right place, but just not deep enough.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Oct. 2018
• The nurse applied a rubber band to my arm to find the right vein, then gently inserted the catheter.
  — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 31 July 2023
• The surgery was needed to insert a catheter in his neck for dialysis.
  — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
• One of his jailers nearly broke the neck of a paraplegic guy who had the temerity to ask for a catheter.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2017
• The Rangers hit a home run during one catheter procedure.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram.com, 21 June 2017
• The complaint stated that after that catheter was replaced, blood ran through the next one, too.
  — Essence.com, 26 Sep. 2017
• Doctors snake a catheter into blood vessels of the kidney to find the one that is feeding the tumor and then block the blood flow to the growth.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2018
• Her ovaries are pulled outside her body, and a catheter full of embryos is plunged into her oviduct.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
• Those can include extra-long tweezers or a catheter with a balloon on the end.
  — Markian Hawryluk and Heidi De Marco, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Others are overwhelmed by the prospect of having to keep the area around the catheter clean to prevent infection.
  — Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2021
• Sung has even heard the noise while inserting a catheter into a patient.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
• Then the wire comes out, and a catheter is fed through the sheath and guided up through the larger arteries into a blood vessel in the neck.
  — Eva Holland, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
• On two other mornings, a nurse found them in bed with a bursting catheter bag that sent urine back into their body or onto their socks.
  — Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
• The actual insertion of the needle and catheter (the tiny tube that delivers the medicine) is timed to be done between contractions so that the pregnant person can hold still.
  — Robin Elise Weiss, Phd, Parents, 22 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024