(n.) The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging.
(n.) Withdrawal of troops from a town, fortress, etc.
(n.) Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
(n.) That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
(n.) Abolition; nullification.
Example Sentences:
(1) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(2) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(3) A therapeutic approach is suggested which emphasizes specific antibiotic regimens appropriate to the primary site of infection and prompt neurosurgical intervention with evacuation of the subdural spaces bilaterally.
(4) Today we have evacuated six bodies from inside the fuselage,” Supriyadi said on Friday.
(5) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(6) This may be due to changes in the gastroduodenal pressure gradient induced by evacuating the stomach.
(7) We conclude that these good results are due to the short interval between accident and operation as well as to the evacuation of the intraarticular hematoma, together with a stable internal fixation and functional rehabilitation.
(8) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
(9) One patient required evacuation and open packing of the right upper quadrant and lower right hemithorax.
(10) The Bosnian leadership in Sarajevo warned the UN on 8 July that “genocide against the civilian population of Srebrenica may occur” but did not call for evacuation.
(11) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
(12) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
(13) The postoperative CT images show successful evacuation of the hematoma, and the clinical evaluation also showed satisfactory results.
(14) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
(15) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
(16) This series suggests that patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy may safely undergo operative procedures, and patients presenting with intracerebral hemorrhage may show neurologic improvement following evacuation of the hematoma.
(17) In contrast to the broad coverage of the clinical aspects of the aeromedical evacuation, the operational and management control issues have rarely been addressed.
(18) Subdural hematomas were evacuated in 41 newborns during the first 4 days after birth.
(19) Simultaneous opening of the dura mater on both sides with slow evacuation of the contents of the hematomas is an important stage of surgical intervention in BTSH.
(20) The evacuation of breakfast with butter was inhibited almost to the same degree.
Venesection
Definition:
(n.) The act or operation of opening a vein for letting blood; bloodletting; phlebotomy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that a simple venesection regimen without volume replacement is a safe procedure for improving blood rheology.
(2) The patients were subgrouped by sex, age, medical history, smoking habits, delay from the onset of symptoms to the start of treatment, hematocrit at entry, venesection volume, neurologic score at entry into the study, blood pressure changes in the acute phase, presence of atrial fibrillation, location of brain lesion by computed tomography, type of diagnostic procedures, and hospital setting.
(3) Kidney transplant patients may develop post-transplant erythremia (PTE), and in order to avoid thromboembolism venesection, anticoagulation and native kidney removal have been suggested.
(4) In the final group the hematocrit value was reduced to the same extent by means of venesection and volume substitution with Ringer lactate.
(5) Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) decreased from 4.27 l-min-1) at control to 4.03 l-min-1 after venesection (P less than 0.05) and increased to 4.61 l-min-1 after reinfusion (P less than 0.05).
(6) The control group received no dextran or venesection.
(7) These may persist in diminishing degree for several weeks, but have to be weighed against the detraining effect produced by the repeated venesection required to obtain an adequate amount of stored blood for autologous reinfusion.
(8) Hence it is suggested that treatment either by anticoagulation or by venesection is indicated.
(9) Liver biopsy, chemical hepatic iron determination, iron absorption studies, and number of venesections required were used to support these observations.
(10) Four of the patients with hemochromatosis were reexamined after completed treatment with venesection; this resulted in normalized biliary concentrations of iron and ferritin.
(11) This case history records a rare form of self-mutilation, venesection.
(12) In the venesected group the 2,3-DPG increased between Day 0 and Day 4.
(13) Phlebotomy appears to be the treatment of choice, with a regimen of regular venesection for the control of symptoms due to hyperviscosity and vascular occlusion.
(14) Venesection with subsequent administration of Ringer lactate and exercise is superior to exercise alone but markedly inferior to the combination therapy with HES.
(15) Therapeutic venesection for polycythaemia vera (PV) produces iron deficiency.
(16) In experimental animals and in the human studies, venesected individuals were used to reproduce the iron deficiency state where treatment would be indicated.
(17) However, in patients in whom venesection is not feasible, the chelating agent DFO can effectively remove excess iron.
(18) Mucosal iron uptake and body absorption were both considerably increased in the patients with iron-deficiency anaemia (33.5 - 15.6 and 29.8 - 17.0% respectively) and in the eight patients with idiopathic haemochromatosis treated by venesection therapy until the excess iron stores were removed (27.2 - 12.0 and 26.6 - 14.6% respectively).
(19) After venesection, the platelet and megathrombocyte counts increased rapidly and excessively in most patients and platelet aggregation improved markedly.
(20) Eight patients treated with cyclosporin-A and five treated with azathioprine had therapeutic venesections.