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flushing

Portuguese, noun

flushing is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Catheter hub cleaning with saline prior to accessing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does flushing mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineCatheter hub cleaning with saline prior to accessing.

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Forms of flushing

  • Flushing alternative

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is flushing in Portuguese?

flushing appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).