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DRAINAGE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it

Synonyms:

drain; drainage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("drainage" is a kind of...):

emptying; evacuation; voidance (the act of removing the contents of something)

Derivation:

drain (empty of liquid; drain the liquid from)

drain (flow off gradually)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A flexible plastic tube inserted into the bladder to provide continuous urinary drainage.

(Foley Catheter, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-Hodgkin lymphoma arising from the conjunctiva, lacrimal gland, lacrimal drainage apparatus, eyelids, or other orbital tissues around the eye.

(Ocular Adnexal Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Surgical creation of an opening (stoma) for drainage of the urinary bladder.

(Cystostomy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Albumin tends to accumulate in solid tumors as a result of high metabolic turnover, rapid angiogenesis, hypervasculature, and impaired lymphatic drainage.

(Aldoxorubicin, NCI Thesaurus)

Aberrant drainage of one or more of the pulmonary veins which causes the return of oxygen-rich blood to the right atrium.

(Congenital Anomaly of Pulmonary Veins, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of the eight liver segments that has its own vascular inflow, outflow, and biliary drainage, thus defined as functionally independent.

(Couinaud Liver Segment, NCI Thesaurus)

Treatments include drainage and antibiotics.

(Abscess, NIH)

A type of valve that connects to a chest tube and facilitates the drainage of fluid, air, and other materials out of the pleural cavity, while not permitting the flow back into the pleural cavity.

(Chest Tube Flutter Valve, NCI Thesaurus)

It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Limitations include rapid drug elimination due to lacrimation and nasolacrimal drainage, drug binding to, and metabolism by, tear proteins, and target non-specificity as a result of systemic absorption through the nasal mucosa and conjunctival vasculature.

(Conjunctival Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)