abdominal paracentesis insertion of a trocar through a small incision and into the peritoneal cavity to remove ascitic fluids or inject a therapeutic agent. This is most often done to remove excess fluid in a patient with cirrhosis of the liver. Called also abdominocentesis and peritoneocentesis.
Abstraction is the act of representing essential features without including the background details or explanations. In the computer science and software engineering domain, the abstraction principle is used to reduce complexity and allow efficient design and implementation of complex software systems.
literary techniques and methods employed to help the author get his or her point across. Not all literary devices will be used within one work. ABSTRACTION: a term that is applied to ideas that are philosophical and emotional, not concrete or tangible, yet the idea comes from experience.