Lavage
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lavage
[lə′väzh] (medicine)
The therapeutic washing out of an organ.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Lavage
a medical procedure used to cleanse mechanically the walls and contents of such tubular organs as the vagina or urethra and surrounding tissues. A lavage may also be performed for therapeutic and preventive medical purposes; in such cases, it is based on the action of a chemical agent or temperature. Warm boiled water or solutions of various medicinal substances are used in the procedure.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive
Zuckerbraun, "Diverting loop ileostomy and
colonic lavage: an alternative to total abdominal colectomy for the treatment of severe, complicated Clostridium difficile associated disease," Annals of Surgery, vol.
Palpation of the colon and intraoperative
colonic lavage and on-table colonoscopy are the only current diagnostic and therapeutic modalities available in the immediate perioperative time period.
He does a good job as the 1980s' most entertaining, cavalier roue, and his splendidly caddish voice-over is terrific (the phrase "
colonic lavage", for instance, sticking in the memory as firmly as Clark's line about being "economic with the actualite").
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