lavage

noun

la·vage lə-ˈväzh

British usually ˈla-vij

: washing

especially : the therapeutic washing out of an organ or part

Examples of lavage in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Ductal lavage flushes out cells from the breast’s milk ducts, where breast cancer often originates, so that they may be analyzed for abnormalities that suggest an elevated risk of the disease. —

Margalit Fox, New York Times, 3 July 2023 Postoperative care was reduced to nasal lavage with topical steroids for 3 to 6 weeks. —

Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2017 Endoscopic view of one day after 3 L of cola lavage. —

Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2013 Jimenez was also able to work remotely from Hotel Influenza, taking meetings in between the occasional blood draw and nasal lavage. —

Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2022 Gastric lavage — Otherwise known as stomach pumping. —

Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2022 Doctors collected samples of fluid from her lungs using what's known as a bronchoalveolar lavage, and tested that fluid for SARS-CoV-2. —

Kristen Jordan Shamus, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2021 For the study, health investigators collected bronchoalveolar lavage fluid samples—that is fluid flushed into and then recollected from the lung through a tube inserted into the mouth or nose. —

Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2019 To catch it early, Dr. Shohreh Shahabi, chief of gynecologic oncology at Northwestern Medicine, is experimenting with a procedure known as uterine lavage. —

Claire Altschuler, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018 See More

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