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CENTESIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(surgery) the act of puncturing a body cavity or organ with a hollow needle in order to draw out fluid
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("centesis" is a kind of...):
puncture (the act of puncturing or perforating)
Domain category:
surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "centesis"):
abdominocentesis; paracentesis (centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis)
amnio; amniocentesis ((pregnancy) extraction by centesis of amniotic fluid from a pregnant woman (after the 15th week of pregnancy) to aid in the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities)
arthrocentesis (removal of fluid from a joint by centesis)
celiocentesis (removal of fluid from the abdomen by centesis)
lumbar puncture; spinal puncture; spinal tap (removal by centesis of fluid from the subarachnoid space of the lumbar region of the spinal cord for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes)
thoracentesis; thoracocentesis (removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes)
