bronchoalveolar lavage
bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) (brong-koh-al-vee-oh-ler) n. a method of obtaining cellular material from the lungs that is used particularly in the investigation and monitoring of interstitial lung disease and in the investigation of pulmonary infiltrates in immunosuppressed patients.
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