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  • noun Plural form of lavage.

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Examples

  • There were swimming baths, Turkish baths, colonic lavages, heat treatment rooms and everything else which is calculated to make the prematurely aging playboys and playwomen age a little less quickly.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Ainsi, hormis mes 2 douches et 15 lavages de dents en une journee, je ne me soucie de rien d'autre.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • Nasal lavages were carried out at the end of each challenge series and alpha-2-macroglobulin, ECP, and tryptase were monitored as indices of allergic inflammation.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Lennart Greiff 2010

  • Nasal lavages were carried out at the end of each challenge series and alpha-2-macroglobulin, ECP, and tryptase were monitored as indices of allergic inflammation.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Lennart Greiff 2010

  • Nasal lavages were carried out at the end of each challenge series and alpha-2-macroglobulin, ECP, and tryptase were monitored as indices of allergic inflammation.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2010

  • Nasal lavages were carried out at the end of each challenge series and alpha-2-macroglobulin, ECP, and tryptase were monitored as indices of allergic inflammation.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles Lennart Greiff 2010

  • Material from self-sampling brushes or vaginal lavages has been proven to be highly representative for the cervical HPV status

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Charlotte H. Lenselink et al. 2008

  • Would he deny that the fame hoftile lavages had fallen upon our frontier after the furrender of Hull, committing their barbarities, until checked by the for - ces from Kentucky and Ohio?

    Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812

  • The lavages inftantty fprang up, feized their arms, and direded their looks, expreflive of fiercenefs and furprife, towards the fea.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • A famous arbiter of taste spoke of a movement of the bowels in these words: "He couldn't do you know what without lavages."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 3 1975

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