Debridement vs Evacuation - What's the difference?
debridement | evacuation |
(medicine) The removal of damaged or foreign tissue from a wound.
* 2003 , Rodriguez-Merchan, The Haemophilic Joints: New Perspectives (Blackwell 2003), page 96:
The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging, including creating a vacuum.
Withdrawal of troops or civils from a town, fortress, etc.
Voidance of any matter by the natural passages of the body or by an artificial opening; defecation; also, a diminution of the fluids of an animal body by cathartics, venesection, or other means.
The act of evacuating; leaving a place in an orderly fashion; especially for protection
That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means.
Abolition; nullification.
As nouns the difference between debridement and evacuation
is that debridement is (medicine) the removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue while evacuation is evacuation (act of emptying).debridement
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Noun
(en noun)- In view of the underlying pathology, débridement is usually combined with late synovectomy.
evacuation
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(wikipedia evacuation)Noun
(en noun)- (Quincy)
- (Hooker)