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Definition: Thoracocentesis |
ThoracocentesisNoun1. Removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Language | Translations for "thoracocentesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | pleurocentese (pleural puncture), pleurapunktur (pleural puncture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | ponction pleurale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Thorakozentese (pleural puncture), Pleurapunktion (pleural puncture), Pleuraparazentese (pleural puncture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρακέντησις του υπεξωκότος (pleural puncture), παρακέντησις θώρακος ή ημιθωρακίου (pleural puncture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | toracocentesi (pleural puncture), toracentesi (pleural puncture), pneumocentesi (pleural puncture), pleurocentesi (pleural puncture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oracocentesisthay punção pleural (pleural puncture). (various references) toracocentesis (pleural puncture), toracentesis (pleural puncture), pleurocentesis (pleural puncture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-i-n-o-o-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: crotchetiness. | |
-3 letters: anorthosites, cotoneasters. | |
-4 letters: anesthetics, anorthosite, cartoonists, concretists, consecrates, consociates, cotoneaster, escharotics, neocortices, reaccession, scratchiest, technocrats, theocentric, theocracies, throatiness. | |
-5 letters: accretions, aesthetics, ancestries, anchorites, anesthetic, anorectics, anorthites, antecessor, antechoirs, antiheroes, antitheses, arccosines, architects, carnotites, cartoonish, cartoonist, catechesis, catechists, certainest, chanceries, chasteners, chattiness, choiceness, concretist, consecrate, consociate, constricts, contactees, contesters, cornetcies, cornetists, cortisones, earthiness. | |
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