Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Catheter

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

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.

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  Catheter/1.1