cardiopuncture

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:10.1186/s12967-015-0578-x:

     Following reperfusion, a portion of the blood was collected by cardiopuncture, and the heart was harvested and washed with ice-cold normal saline.