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Definition: Lavage |
LavageNoun1. Washing out a hollow organ (especially the stomach) by flushing with water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A cleaning of the stomach and colon. Uses a special drink and enemas. (references) |
Medicine | The washing out of a hollow cavity or organ. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insertion | Clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lavage |
| English words defined with "lavage": alimentary tract smear ♦ douche, douche bag ♦ gastric lavage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lavage": Bronchoalveolar Lavage, Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid ♦ Nasal Lavage Fluid ♦ Peritoneal Lavage. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lavage" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (lavement, scrubbing, washing). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lavage d'amour (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cysts of Pneumocystis carinii in smear from bronchoalveolar lavage. Methenamine silver stain.Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Bronchoalveolar Lavage. (references) | |
Lavage - To wash out a body organ. (references) | ||
Observation of parasites in patient specimens, such as bronchoalveolar lavage material from immunocompromised patients, or lymph node biopsy. (references) | ||
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| "Lavage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "Lavage" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.3% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "lavage": Bronchoalveolar Lavage ♦ Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid ♦ gastric lavage ♦ Nasal Lavage Fluid ♦ Peritoneal Lavage. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ductal lavage | 21 |
gastric lavage | 8 |
lavage | 7 |
lavage de cerveau | 5 |
avril lavage | 5 |
nasal lavage | 4 |
lavage pulse | 4 |
ear lavage | 3 |
pulsatile lavage | 3 |
bronchoalveolar lavage | 3 |
colonic lavage | 2 |
lavage portique | 2 |
pulsed lavage | 2 |
lavage sinus | 2 |
peritoneal lavage | 2 |
arthroscopic lavage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lavage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lavage (irrigation), udskylning (douching, irrigation, karstic phenomena, scour), skylning (flushing, irrigation, rinsing, scavenging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lavatio (irrigation), uitwassing (irrigation), uitspoeling (irrigation, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, scour, undermining, underwashing, wash out, washing, washout), spoeling (brewer'grains, cooling mud, distiller's wash, distilling slops, draff, drilling fluid, drilling mud, drilling sludge, flushing, greasy wastes, hog-wash, irrigation, mud flush, pig swill, pig-wash, scalded fodder, scavenging, still slops, still wash, stillage sludge, stillage(sludge), swill, swillings), irrigatio (irrigation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lavaatio, irrigaatio, huuhtelu (flushing, irrigation, rinse, wash). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lavage (lavement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spülung (douche, flush, flushing, irrigation, rinse, rinsing, scavenging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έκπλυση (leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, rain-out, rinsing, scrubbing, stripping, wash out, washout, wash-out), πλύση (ablution, laundry, lotion, rinsing, wash, washing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mosás (degreasing, wash, washing), öblítés (flush, leaching, rinse, swill, wash out, wash-out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | lavanda (lavender, mauve, washing), lavaggio (air release, bleeding, carcass wash, elutriation, grading, rain-out, scavenging, scrubbing, venting, wash, washing, washing down, wash-out), irrigazione (irrigation, watering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 胃洗浄 (gastric irrigation, gastric lavage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いせ"じょう (gastric irrigation, gastric lavage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avagelay lavagem gástrica (gastric lavage), lavagem do peritoneu (peritoneal lavage), lavagem de Bonnet (Bonnet lavage), lavagem bronqueoalveolar (bronchoalveolar lavage), lavagem brônquica (bronchial lavage, broncho-alveolar lavage), diálise peritoneal (peritoneal lavage, transperitoneal dialysis). (various references) lavado (abstersion, cleaning, dipping, leaching, lessivage, lixiviation, scouring, scrubbing, separation, wash, wash out, washed, washing), irrigación (irrigation). (various references) insamling av embryon genom sköljning (obtaining of embryos by lavage), insamling av embryon genom lavage (obtaining of embryos by lavage), bronkialsköljning (bronchial lavage, broncho-alveolar lavage), BAL (bale, ball, bronchial lavage, broncho-alveolar lavage, dance, pack, package, promenade). (various references) การล้าง (อวัยวะ). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lavage": lavages. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-l-v" | |
-1 letter: agave, algae, galea, gavel, vagal. | |
-2 letters: alae, alga, egal, gala, gale, gave, lava, lave, leva, vale, veal, vela. | |
-3 letters: aal, aga, age, ala, ale, ava, ave, gae, gal, gel, lag, lav, lea, leg, lev, veg. | |
-4 letters: aa, ae, ag, al, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-l-v" | |
+1 letter: lavages, salvage. | |
+2 letters: aasvogel, cleavage, salvaged, salvagee, salvager, salvages, savagely. | |
+3 letters: aasvogels, averagely, cleavages, galvanise, galvanize, navigable, palsgrave, salvagees, salvagers, vassalage. | |
+4 letters: evaluating, flagstaves, galavanted, galivanted, galvanised, galvanises, galvanized, galvanizer, galvanizes, palavering, palsgraves, reavailing, vassalages. | |
+5 letters: alleviating, cavaliering, devaluating, evangelical, gallivanted, galvanizers, revaluating, salvageable, sugarloaves. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 76 61 67 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- ...- .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110110 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a v a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0076 0061 0067 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)466788677371 |
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