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Aspiration means to draw in or out using a sucking motion. This medical term has two meanings, depending on how it is used:
- Aspiration can mean breathing in a foreign object (such as sucking food into the airway).
- The term can also refer to a medical procedure that removes harmful or misplaced substances from an area of the body. These substances can be air, body fluids, or bone fragments. An example is removing ascitesfluid from the abdomen.
Aspiration as a medical procedure may also be used to remove tissue samples for a biopsy. This is sometimes called a needle biopsy or aspirate (for example, aspiration of a breast lesion).
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ReferencesBarker AF. Bronchiectasis, atelectasis, cysts, and localized lung disorders. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 90.
Bergasa NV. Approach to the patient with liver disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 149.
Muss HB. Breast cancer and differential diagnosis of benign lesions. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 208.
Pisetsky DS. Laboratory testing in the rheumatic diseases. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 278.
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∙ 12y agoAspiration means to draw in or out using a sucking motion. This medical term has two meanings, depending on how it is used:
- Aspiration can mean breathing in a foreign object (such as sucking food into the airway).
- The term can also refer to a medical procedure that removes harmful or misplaced substances from an area of the body. These substances can be air, body fluids, or bone fragments. An example is removing ascitesfluid from the abdomen.
Aspiration as a medical procedure may also be used to remove tissue samples for a biopsy. This is sometimes called a needle biopsy or aspirate (for example, aspiration of a breast lesion).
Related topics:
ReferencesBarker AF. Bronchiectasis, atelectasis, cysts, and localized lung disorders. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 90.
Bergasa NV. Approach to the patient with liver disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 149.
Muss HB. Breast cancer and differential diagnosis of benign lesions. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 208.
Reviewed ByReview Date: 11/14/2010
David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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What is th difference between aspiration and respiration?
Aspiration is the process of drawing breath and respiration is the action of breathing and taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide.
What is the treatment for seroma?
cortistab upon aspiration can prevent or at least delay recurrence. An ear seroma that refilled weekly after aspiration, took seven weeks to reform after cortisone injection. If it doesn't resolve after 3 cortisone injections a referral to ENT is recommended for more effective intervention.
Why do you position patient on the left side when vomiting?
it doesn't happen to me, i sleep like that. You should probably ask your doctor.
What Prevents aspiration of food into trachea?
gag reflex and the actual structure in the body is called the epiglottis.
How is a baby with a tracheoesophageal fistula prepared for surgery?
While awaiting surgery, the infant's condition is stabilized. Preoperative care concentrates on avoiding aspiration pneumonia and includes:
What is kesha aspiration?
Kesha's aspiration is romance
How do use aspiration in a sentence?
Aspiration means hope or dreams. My aspiration is to become a concert violinist.
What Is Career aspiration in Finance?
What is cureer aspiration in finance
How do you change a Sim's aspiration?
For PC there is in aspiration rewards an aspiration changer. I forget the name of it. The sim needs to be in gold aspiration level to use it or something really funny will happen.
Inhalation of a foreign substance?
aspiration pneumonia
Which injection does not require aspiration?
An intramuscular injection need aspiration.
Why npo before paracentesis?
to prevent aspiration to prevent aspiration
What is meant by aspiration '?
aspiration is what you aspire to do. like if you have a creative aspiration, you will constantly be creating new thing and mixing and matiching things.
Word meaning of occupational aspiration?
An occupational aspiration is what you have when you aspire to attain a certain occupation. If a child wants to be a doctor, that is his or her occupational aspiration.
What is the medical term for discharge of amniotic fluid?
Cystocentesis or aspiration.
Aspiration in a sentence?
To be a doctor is Kelly's sole aspiration.
What is the afrikaans word for 'aspiration'?
The Afrikaans word for 'aspiration' is "aspirasie".
