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Examples of catheterize
catheterize
Up until mid-January, her parents had to catheterize her damaged urinary tract every three hours.
From the post-gazette.com
Afterward patients may have to catheterize themselves.
From the courier-journal.com
You have to catheterize them for them to urinate.
From the edition.cnn.com
The officer pulled the Taser after Wheeler, who had been arrested on a cocaine charge, resisted a hospital worker's attempt to catheterize him.
From the orlandosentinel.com
She also lost control over her bladder and bowels, alternating between incontinence and constipation, and she had to catheterize herself to urinate, court records say.
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- Insert a catheter into (a body part); "catheterize the patient's bladder"
- To introduce a catheter into part of the body
- (Catheterization [Bladder]) Removal of urine from the bladder by means of a urinary catheter (tube).
- (Catheterization) The process of inserting a hollow tube into an organ of the body, either for an investigative purpose or to give some form of treatment (such as to remove urine from the bladder of a child with neurologic disease).
- (Catheterization) A procedure in which a doctor guides a thin plastic tube, or catheter, through an artery or vein in the arm or leg to the heart.
- (Catheterization) A small diameter flexible rubber or plastic tube used to cannulate a body cavity, duct, or vessel. Caudal: A descriptive anatomical term meaning toward the rear part of the body or tail.
- (Catheterization) A technique in which a hollow, flexible tube is used to drain body fluids (such as urine), to introduce fluids into the body, or to examine or widen a narrowed vein or artery.
- (Catheterization) A test in which contrast dye is injected into blood vessels, allowing a physician to view via X-ray where an artery is narrowed.
- (Catheterization) Insertion of a catheter into any of the four chambers of the heart (See-Left Atrium, Right Atrium, Left Ventricle, Right Ventricle) or large blood vessels for diagnosis, assessment of abnormalities, treatment, and/or evaluation.
