Definitions
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- noun A thin
wire used to control the movement of acatheter as it is inserted into the body.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And John Simpson's guidewire catheter for angioplasty and heart stents—the list goes on.
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If anything, the law is there as a guidewire in difficult times.
Gordon Marino: Wanda Sykes Punctures Cheney's Argument for Waterboarding 2009
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And it is amazing -- I watch on an x-ray monitor, completely unsedated, while someone pokes a guidewire down the tube, deflates the balloon in my stomach, pulls out the old tube and threads in the new one like he's snaking a drain.
Archive 2006-08-01 Kay Olson 2006
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And it is amazing -- I watch on an x-ray monitor, completely unsedated, while someone pokes a guidewire down the tube, deflates the balloon in my stomach, pulls out the old tube and threads in the new one like he's snaking a drain.
What we really look like Kay Olson 2006
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The doctor looks at an x-ray video of my stomach instead of my stomach itself while he threads a guidewire down through the old tube.
Wednesday gimp blogging Kay Olson 2006
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The doctor looks at an x-ray video of my stomach instead of my stomach itself while he threads a guidewire down through the old tube.
Archive 2006-11-01 Kay Olson 2006
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I know that they'll be inserting a guidewire into the breast while I'm still awake so the doctor knows exactly where to work.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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I know that they'll be inserting a guidewire into the breast while I'm still awake so the doctor knows exactly where to work.
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This is achieved using computer-controlled, externally applied magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter or guidewire, resulting in improved navigation, shorter procedure time and reduced x-ray exposure.
Stereotaxis Announces Expansion of Catheter Strategic Partnership - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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This is achieved using computer-controlled, externally applied magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter or guidewire, resulting in improved navigation, shorter procedure time and reduced x-ray exposure.
unknown title 2011
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