n :  the act or action of washing : esp  :  the therapeutic washing out of an organ
, vt, la*vaged  la*vag*ing  :  to wash (a lesion) or wash out (an organ) therapeutically <lavaged the bladder with water>  <the incisions were copiously lavaged>  .
 
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Similar sounding terms:  lov·age 
 
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