lavage

Borrowed from French lavage.

lavage (plural lavages)

1. A washing.
2. (medicine) A washing of a hollow organ.

lavage (third-person singular simple present lavages, present participle lavaging, simple past and past participle lavaged)

1. (medicine) To wash a hollow organ

laver +‎ -age

lavage m (plural lavages)

1. washing (act of washing)

• “lavage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• vagale

laver (“to wash”) +‎ -age

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lavage m (plural lavages)

1. (Jersey) washing (act of washing)