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
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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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.