gastric lavage

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   washing out the stomach with sterile water or a saltwater solution; removes blood or poisons

   “when the doctor ordered a gastric lavage the hospital pumped out my stomach”

   Broaderlavage

Questions about gastric lavage

What does gastric lavage mean?

gastric lavage means "washing out the stomach with sterile water or a saltwater solution; removes blood or poisons".

Is gastric lavage a common word?

gastric lavage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.