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[NTR] Paracentesis #108

Closed ami-day closed 2 years ago

ami-day commented 2 years ago

Preferred term label

Paracentesis

Synonyms

Textual definition

Paracentesis is a procedure in which a needle or catheter is inserted into the peritoneal cavity to obtain ascitic fluid for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. Ascitic fluid may be used to help determine the etiology of ascites, as well as to evaluate for infection or presence of cancer.

Suggested parent term

collecting specimen from organism https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols/ontologies/efo/terms?iri=http%3A%2F%2Fpurl.obolibrary.org%2Fobo%2FOBI_0600005&viewMode=All&siblings=false

Use case

HCA specimen collection protocol

paolaroncaglia commented 2 years ago

Hi @ami-day , I moved this request to the EFO tracker and tagged you there: https://github.com/EBISPOT/efo/issues/1509 I'll close this ticket now. Thanks.