plural caths
: catheterization
especially
: cardiac catheterization
… four or five low-risk caths could easily be done each day. —David Guo
—often used before another noun Twenty minutes later, she was in the heart cath room where Drs. Maddox and Bronson spent the next two hours delicately pushing 3 stents into an artery … —Roger Aiken
cathed; cathing
: to insert a catheter into (a patient) : to perform a catheterization procedure on (a patient)
… the nurse soon returned and said she had tried to cath the woman but couldn't find her urethra …—Charles Hagen
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“Cath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cath. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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