LAVAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lavage mean? 

• LAVAGE (noun)
  The noun LAVAGE has 1 sense:

1. washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water

  Familiarity information: LAVAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAVAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lavage" is a kind of...):

irrigation ((medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lavage"):

gastric lavage (washing out the stomach with sterile water or a saltwater solution; removes blood or poisons)

Derivation:

lave (cleanse (one's body) with soap and water)

 Context examples 

Ductal lavage may be used in addition to clinical breast examination and mammography to detect breast cancer.

(Breast Duct Lavage, NCI Dictionary)

Fluid introduced into, and collected from, a body cavity by lavage procedure.

(Lavage Fluid, NCI Thesaurus)

Its detection in bronchial lavage specimens was shown to predict predicts the presence of a neoplasm with 96% sensitivity and 82% specificity earlier than routine chest X rays or sputum cytology.

(Monoclonal Antibody 703D4, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): For a specimen collection, the methodCode could = "finger stick", "veni puncture", "Abdominal/ascites effusion", "Biopsy", "Bronchial alveolar lavage (BAL)".

(Defined Procedure Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Fluid introduced into, and collected from, the lungs by a bronchoalveolar lavage procedure.

(Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): Finger stick, veni puncture, Abdominal/ascites effusion, Biopsy, Bronchial alveolar lavage (BAL) (for specimen collection), laparoscopic (for cholecystectomy)

(Performed Procedure Method Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Types of procedures and interventions performed by a bronchoscopist include, but are not limited to, evaluation of the air passages of the lung (e.g. localization of tumor or areas of dysplasia) and other chest organs and tissues (e.g. ultrasound localization of mediastinal nodes); treatment of airway obstruction by tumors or foreign bodies, removal of secretions and bronchioalveolar lavage, laser therapy, cryotherapy, brachytherapy, and stenting.

(Bronchoscopist, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called lavage.

(Irrigation, NCI Dictionary)