cardiopuncture
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cardiopuncture (plural cardiopunctures)
- (surgery) cardiocentesis
- 2015 July 2, Shulin Wang et al., “Febuxostat pretreatment attenuates myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury via mitochondrial apoptosis”, in Journal of Translational Medicine[1], volume 13, :
- Following reperfusion, a portion of the blood was collected by cardiopuncture, and the heart was harvested and washed with ice-cold normal saline.