"Cath" v.

[Karl Hagen]

My wife (an RN) confirms that "cath" as a verb is the normal jargon on all the
hospital floors she's worked.

Wilson Gray wrote:
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> Apparently, according to an ad for medical supplies on local TV, one
> uses catheters when one has occasion to _cath_:
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> "And every time that she needed to cath, she had to boil used catheters."
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> "Now, thanks to [the advertiser], when I want to cath, I can use a
> new, sterile catheter."
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