CATHETERIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catheterization mean? 

• CATHETERIZATION (noun)
  The noun CATHETERIZATION has 1 sense:

1. the operation of introducing a catheter into the body

  Familiarity information: CATHETERIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHETERIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The operation of introducing a catheter into the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

catheterisation; catheterization

Hypernyms ("catheterization" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Derivation:

catheterize (insert a catheter into (a body part))

 Context examples 

Catheterization can measure blood pressure within the heart and how much oxygen is in the blood.

(Cardiac Catheterization, NCI Thesaurus)

O. ureolytica is commensal to the genitourinary, but can become pathogenic during long term catheterization or in immunocompromised individuals.

(Oligella ureolytica, NCI Thesaurus)

G. rubripertincta is an opportunistic pathogen, causing infection at sites of catheterization.

(Gordonia rubripertincta, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac catheterization laboratory that is not integrated with any other entity as a health care provider, a department of a provider, remote location of a hospital, satellite facility, or a provider-based entity.

(Free-Standing Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiac catheterization laboratory may either be part of a hospital, affiliated with a hospital, or exist as a free-standing facility.

(Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)

The diagnostic criteria may include documented history of any of the following: documented coronary artery stenosis greater than or equal to 50% (by cardiac catheterization or other modality of direct imaging of the coronary arteries); previous coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG); previous percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); previous myocardial infarction.

(Coronary Artery Disease, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

An establishment staffed, equipped, and licensed for performing invasive and non-invasive cardiovascular procedures (e.g. diagnostic heart catheterization, selective coronary angiography and graft angiography, angioplasty, stent placement, endomyocaridal biopsy, valvuloplasty, etc.) used to diagnose and treat various cardiac and circulatory diseases.

(Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, NCI Thesaurus)