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Medical washing
Answer for the clue "Medical washing ", 6 letters:
lavage
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A washing. 2 (context medicine English) A washing of a hollow organ. vb. (context medicine English) To wash a hollow organ
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a washing," 1895, from French lavage , from laver "to wash" (see lave ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water
Usage examples of lavage.
The cloth was so drenched in the exudations of the sackmaker that it had absorbed them like an enfleurage paste and could be directly subjected to lavage.
Grenouille had produced over the last year by cold-oil enfleurage of their bodies, digestion of their hair and clothes, lavage and distillation.
They've been treating it with activated charcoal-in gastric lavage and enemas-and with trimethoprim.
They're still working on her, lavaging her stomach, the whole bit you went through with the nasogastric tube, the oxygen up the nose, and the rest.