(medicine) Insertion or use of a catheter.
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(medicine) Insertion or use of a catheter.
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The process of introducing a hollow, flexible tube into a blood vessel or body cavity to withdraw or instill fluids.
| Sports Science and Medicine: catheterization |
The use of a catheter to administer drugs or extract body fluids. Catheterization is used to alter the integrity of urine so that banned substances may escape detection in dope tests of urine samples. For example, a male athlete on drugs may inject drug-free urine into his bladder via a catheter inserted into his penis. This type of physical manipulation is on the World Anti-Doping Agency's Prohibited list. See also tampering.
| Health Dictionary: catheterization |
Insertion of a catheter into the body. Common types of this procedure include cardiac catheterization, in which a catheter is inserted into the heart through a vein in the arm to diagnose heart disease, and urinary bladder catheterization, in which a catheter is inserted into the urethra to permit urine to flow out of the urinary bladder.
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