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Definition of Lavage
1. Noun. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water.
Definition of Lavage
1. Noun. A washing. ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) A washing of a hollow organ. ¹
3. Verb. (medicine) To wash a hollow organ ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lavage
1. a washing [n -S] - See also: washing
Medical Definition of Lavage
1. Washing out. Gastric lavage is washing out the stomach, for example, to remove drugs or poisons. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavage
Literary usage of Lavage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Nursing: A Text-book for Nurses by Anna Caroline Maxwell, Amy Elizabeth Pope (1914)
"lavage. Gavage. Nasal Feeding. Expression of the Stomach Contents by Siphonage.
... lavage BY lavage is meant the washing out of the stomach. PURPOSE. ..."
2. Diseases of the Stomach: Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment by John Conrad Hemmeter (1902)
"The technics of lavage—the indications for and against it—have been treated in
... In brief, lavage is indicated (a) where the exit of the chyme from the ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1897)
"Intestinal lavage.—DR. E. THIERCELIN states that this is indicated in all ...
For clearing the upper portion of the tract lavage of the stomach and ..."
4. Diseases of the Intestines by Ismar Boas (1904)
"As intestinal lavage, (a) for the removal of pathological substances (mucus,
blood, and pus); (b) for the purpose of irrigating the mucous membrane with ..."
5. Diseases of the Stomach, Intestines, and Pancreas by Robert Coleman Kemp (1917)
"Funnel and tube for lavage. The glass funnel is more readily broken and the ...
During the lavage he suddenly grasped the glass tube and managed to splinter ..."
6. Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technic: A Manual of Practical Procedures by Albert Sidney Morrow (1911)
"lavage OF THE STOMACH. lavage consists in washing out the stomach by ...
Gastric lavage may be required for the following purposes: (1) To remove poison and ..."
7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1910)
"Seven months. Complicated by catarrhal appendicitis. Operation. Renal lavage.
Elevated trunk posture. Recovery. irrigated with 25 per cent ..."
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