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Osmotherapy

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Osmotherapy
Intravenous injection or oral administration of an agent that induces dehydration. The goal of dehydration is to reduce the amount of accumulated fluid in the brain.

osmotherapy
the use of hypertonic solutions to produce dehydration.

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