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catheterization
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catheterization

Threading of a flexible tube (catheter) through a channel in the body to inject drugs or a contrast medium, measure and record flow and pressures, inspect structures, take samples, diagnose disorders, or clear blockages. A cardiac catheter, passed into the heart through an artery or vein (the incision is often in the groin), can also carry pacemaker electrodes. A bladder catheter goes through the urethra into the bladder.


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So he was hand-cuffed and strapped to a Florida Hospital bed, where staff members tried to catheterize him forcibly.
Alcohol is a useful sclerotic agent that allows the intervention-alist to devascularize a lesion, the feeders to which are too numerous or small to directly catheterize or to admitparticulate matter.
His mother was disappointed with this goal because she felt he should work on more important areas such as learning how to catheterize himself.
 
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