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paracentesis

paracentesis noun: a medical procedure involving needle drainage of fluid from a body cavity, most commonly the abdomen.

Noun

paracentesis (plural paracenteses)

  1. A medical procedure involving needle drainage of fluid from a body cavity, most commonly the abdomen.

paracentesis meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

paracentesis in Tamil

துளைத்து வடித்தல், தூம்புவடித்தல், வடிதுளையிடல்

paracentesis in Tagalog

(surgery) medical procedure involving needle drainage of fluid
butastiyan

Forms of paracentesis

pluralparacenteses

Origin of paracentesis

From para- + -centesis.

Words formed from paracentesis

Questions about paracentesis

What does paracentesis mean?
Paracentesis means a medical procedure involving needle drainage of fluid from a body cavity, most commonly the abdomen.
What is paracentesis in Tamil?
Paracentesis in Tamil is துளைத்து வடித்தல், தூம்புவடித்தல், வடிதுளையிடல். See Paracentesis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is paracentesis?
Paracentesis is a noun.
What is the plural of paracentesis?
The plural of paracentesis is paracenteses.

Words near paracentesis in the dictionary

  1. Paracelsists
  2. Paracelsus
  3. paraceltitid
  4. paraceltitids
  5. paracenteses
  6. paracentesis
  7. paracentral
  8. paracentrally
  9. paracentric
  10. paracentrical
  11. paracentrics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paracentesis (page history and authors); paracentesis (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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