Meaning of IRRIGATION
| Pronunciation: | | `iru'geyshun
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- [n] (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution
- [n] supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc
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| | See Also: | | clyster, douche, enema, lavage, medication, provision, supply, supplying | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ir`ri*ga"tion\, n. [L. irrigatio: cf. F.
irrigation.]
The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being
irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow
over lands, for nourishing plants.
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| | Definition: | | Repeated flushing of a cavity or lesion to minimise local infection. |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | As streams were few in Palestine, water was generally stored up in winter in reservoirs, and distributed through gardens in numerous rills, which could easily be turned or diverted by the foot (Deut. 11:10). For purposes of irrigation, water was raised from streams or pools by water-wheels, or by a shaduf, commonly used on the banks of the Nile to the present day. |
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| | Related Terms: | | ablution, affusion, aspergation, aspersion, baptism, bath, bathing, bedewing, cleaning out, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, douche, douching, drowning, elution, elutriation, enema, flooding, flush, flushing, flushing out, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, lathering, lavabo, lavage, lavation, laving, moistening, mopping, mopping up, rinse, rinsing, scouring, scrub, scrubbing, scrubbing up, shampoo, soaping, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sponge, sponging, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, swabbing, swashing, wash, washing, washing up, washout, washup, watering, wetting, wiping up |
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