Lavage

With lavage of fr. Lavage , "washing", "washing", "cleaning" (from Latin. Lavare , "wash") is referred to in medicine, a process in which a body cavity with isotonic solution or an aqueous solution is purged, z. B .:

• Bronchoalveolar Lavage , (BAL), a diagnostic procedure used to collect samples from the lungs
• Gastrointestinal lavage , a diagnostic procedure used to obtain samples from the gastrointestinal tract
• Peritoneal lavage , a rinse of the abdominal cavity for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.