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
  • His bladder was drained and he was sent home again this time with a catheter.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 7 June 2024
  • This wire mesh, placed inside the catheter, retrieves the blood clot.
    — Alyssa Hui, Health, 12 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sung has even heard the noise while inserting a catheter into a patient.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Next the robot lifted this frame and moved it to a trimmer that ejected the catheters.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2017
  • Her rectal catheter was removed today and there was feces on it, which is a good sign.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2018
  • The contrast agent is placed into your rectum using a catheter.
    — Suchandrima Bhowmik, Health, 20 Feb. 2025
  • DuPont initially thought the idea of a self-driving catheter was a bit crazy.
    — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019
  • The first system in use was a catheter shaped like a condom, Etlin explained.
    — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024
  • In certain situations, the catheter may be in the right place, but just not deep enough.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 10 Oct. 2018
  • The complaint stated that after that catheter was replaced, blood ran through the next one, too.
    — Essence.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • There has been speculation about his health as he’s been spotted with a catheter in his arm this month.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • There were no tourniquets available, so a bladder catheter had been tied around his arm to slow the bleeding.
    — Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • First the femoral artery line, next the catheter, then the many cannulas, and finally the spinal tap.
    — David Freyne, Time, 7 Dec. 2025
  • The idea is that the device could be inserted into the bladder via a catheter.
    — New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The bunny huddled in a black metal cage, a catheter going straight into its carotid artery.
    — Byandrew Zaleski, science.org, 3 July 2024
  • 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 nurse applied a rubber band to my arm to find the right vein, then gently inserted the catheter.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 31 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • The catheter jumps into position.
    — Daniel Torrent, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The catheter will remain in place for the duration of surgery or labor and delivery.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health, 26 May 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
  • The procedure involves inserting a catheter from the groin to the heart to look for the source of the problem.
    — Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024

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