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Surgical Procedures, Operative > Drainage > Suction
Therapeutics > Drainage > Suction

Preferred term

Suction  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Aspiration, Mechanical
  • Aspirations, Mechanical
  • Drainages, Suction
  • Drainage, Suction
  • Mechanical Aspiration
  • Mechanical Aspirations
  • Suction Drainage
  • Suction Drainages

Note

  • usually NIM; note entry term DRAINAGE, SUCTION: differentiate from DRAINAGE; SUCTION LIPECTOMY see LIPECTOMY is available

Scope note

  • The removal of secretions, gas or fluid from hollow or tubular organs or cavities by means of a tube and a device that acts on negative pressure.

History note

  • 77

In other languages

  • imu

    Finnish

  • suctio
  • suktio
  • Sugning

    Swedish

  • Aspiration, mekanisk
  • Sugdränage

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013396

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