cardiopuncture

English

Etymology

cardio- +‎ puncture

Noun

cardiopuncture (plural cardiopunctures)

  1. (surgery) cardiocentesis
    • 2015 July 2, Shulin Wang et al., “Febuxostat pretreatment attenuates myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury via mitochondrial apoptosis”, in Journal of Translational Medicine‎, volume 13, →DOI:
      Following reperfusion, a portion of the blood was collected by cardiopuncture, and the heart was harvested and washed with ice-cold normal saline.
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