catheterize

1. 1.

   insert a catheter into (a body part)

   “catheterize the patient's bladder”

   Synonymscatheterise

   Broaderinsert

Other forms of catheterize

past tense

catheterized·

present participle

catheterizing·

third person

catheterizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about catheterize

What does catheterize mean?

catheterize means "insert a catheter into (a body part)".

How many syllables are in catheterize?

catheterize has 4 syllables: ca-the-te-rize. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for catheterize?

Close synonyms include catheterise. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catheterize a common word?

catheterize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.