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Answer for the clue "(surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid ", 8 letters:
centesis

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n. (context medicine surgery English) puncture or perforation

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n. (surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid

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I mean she came in for that amniosomething, centesis, that test they give pregnant women our age to make sure the baby won't be born with one leg or eight thumbs and she'd have it aborted, she's already got a sweet little boy about ten named T J and when that blood got spilled on her obviously that's the first thing she thought of.