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Catheter - Definition and Overview

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In medicine, a catheter is a tube that a health professional may insert into part of the body. The process of inserting a catheter is catheterization. In most uses it is a thin, flexible tube: a "soft" catheter; in some, it is a larger, solid tube: a "hard" catheter.

Placement of a catheter into a particular part of the body may allow:

A central line is a conduit for giving drugs or fluids into a large-bore catheter positioned either in a vein near the heart or just inside the atrium.

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Example Usage of Catheter

Caribbean_Kandy: Up at 4am for no good reason. Watchin wack informercials wit some lady talkin abt reusing her Catheter....... Ewwwww
tcuzela: @JoeyOD79 You should have just asked for a Catheter and a bunch of bags. I'll be lolz all over that #peebox.
austintrials: casablanca stdy: Catheter sampled blood archive in cardiovascular diseases http://bit.ly/88TB9k
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