to irrigate
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- verb
- /ˈɪrɪɡeɪt/
- Specialized
:
irrigar
- At Vanderbilt, we instruct patients/caregivers to irrigate the ear with acetic acid solution between office visits in order to remove debris and facilitate the delivery of the antibiotic drops.
- irrigate the wound
- clean and irrigate
So they, they kind of irrigated her wounds and then we gave them the dressings to bandage her and they bandaged her up.
- So they, they kind of irrigated her wounds and then we gave them the dressings to bandage her and they bandaged her up.
- With the patient, the gentleman is trying to irrigate the the wound for him using a giant syringe, I guess with which is like salt water.
- So what I find out is Balboa just they cut this out and just let me go instead of irrigating it for maybe like an hour.
Examples
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With the patient, the gentleman is trying to irrigate the the wound for him using a giant syringe, I guess with which is like salt water.
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In addition, damage to the local health care infrastructure can compromise the ability to properly irrigate contaminated wounds with sterile solution or promptly treat injured persons with topical or systemic antimicrobial drugs (32).
Academic text (2014) -
Without wiping his own fingers clean, he began to irrigate the wound.
Fiction book (1996) -
Finally, we also clean and irrigate, and we use topical ciprofloxacin drops, which are very effective.
Academic text (2002) -
So they, they kind of irrigated her wounds and then we gave them the dressings to bandage her and they bandaged her up.
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Oral cefuroxime and guaifenesin were prescribed for her, and she was instructed to irrigate her nose frequently with normal saline.
Academic text (1996) -
He began to work, irrigating the wound to better see Charissa's work, looking at the remaining damage, and washing away anything that might cause septicemia.
Fiction book (2001) -
You always warned me to scrape behind my ears and spoon between my toes, to squeegee my back and the closet doors, to wipe behind the organ and irrigate the jambs.
Fiction book (2002) -
Immediately irrigate the wound with clean water to prevent infection.
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Before applying the dressing, make sure to irrigate the wound thoroughly.
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Morphology
irrigate = irrig + ate
Same morphological formation as sense 1 (Latin 'irrig-' + '-ate'); the root is not a transparent English base, so the medical sense cannot be predicted from the components alone by an average learner.
Etymology
The word irrigate comes from the Latin root rigare 'to water'. So to irrigate a wound is to wash it with a steady flow of liquid to clean or cool it.