Crossword-Solution: THORACENTESIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thoracentesis | n. | The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest. |
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| PLEURAL tap | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with THORACENTESIS (5)
Treatment, during the chill, warm air, clothing, drinks, injections, compresses, pilocarpin during early inflammatory stage, derivatives, dry cupping, mustard, cantharides, hot water, or air, cold applications, laxatives, calmatives, antirheumatics, alkaline agents, with bitters, diuretics, heart tonic, iodine, mercury, thoracentesis.
When effusion becomes dangerous through excess, and in advanced cases when it fails to yield to medicinal measures thoracentesis is called for.
Treatment, laxative, warm drink, compresses, derivatives, sedatives, diuretics, heart tonics, diuretics, thoracentesis.
Treatment, diuretic, tonic, derivative, thoracentesis, trochar and cannula or aspiration, point of election for puncture, method, asepsis, drainage by aspirator, or into an antiseptic solution, eligible cases, dangers attending thoracentesis, shock, rupture of false membranes and lung, infection of pleura, injection of antiseptics.
Among the dangers attending thoracentesis are fainting as a result of shock on the sudden withdrawal of so much liquid, rupture of the false membranes, and even of the enclosed lung tissue or of blood vessels, under the sudden expansion of the partially collapsed lung confined by the investing false membrane, and the introduction of pus or septic germs into the pleural cavity.