THE PROCEDURE: A relatively simple bedside procedure in which one inserts a needle into the abdomen, thereby evacuating either a small amount of ascites fluid for diagnostic purposes, or large amounts of fluid for therapeutic purposes. It is the most cost-effective means of determining the cause of ascites.
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Shakespeare composed much of his plays in the form of poetry, often in a meter called iambic pentameter. Even today, iambic pentameter is the most common meter used in English-language poetry. A regular line of the meter contains roughly ten syllables, with heavier stresses falling on every other syllable.