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toracentesis

toracentesis is the misspelling of thoracentesis.

Meaning of thoracentesis

Noun

thoracentesis (plural thoracenteses)

  1. A medical procedure involving needle drainage of air or fluid from the pleural space.

Questions about toracentesis

What is toracentesis the misspelling of?
Toracentesis is the misspelling of thoracentesis.

Words near toracentesis in the dictionary

  1. tora hartebeest
  2. tora tora
  3. tora-tora
  4. torace
  5. toraced
  6. toracentesis
  7. toraces
  8. torachrysone
  9. toracing
  10. Toradja
  11. Toradjan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toracentesis (page history and authors); thoracentesis (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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