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washout

[wosh′out]

Etymology: AS, wascan, to wash; ME, oute

the elimination or expulsion of one gas or volatile anesthetic agent by the administration of another.

washout [wahsh´owt]

a cleansing or sweeping clean.

nitrogen washout nitrogen washout test.

washout

to disperse or empty by flooding with water or other solvent.

medullary solute washout

a syndrome in which the relative hyperosmolarity of the renal medulla is reduced due to an excessive loss of sodium and chloride from the medullary interstitium, usually by diuresis. There is an inability to concentrate urine with polyuria and a compensatory polydipsia. Called also renal medullary washout.

washout period

in drug trials, the period allowed for all of the administered drug to be eliminated from the body.

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