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Bonewit Chapter 10
Minor Office Surgery
Question | Answer |
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A wound in which the outer layers of the skin are damaged; a scrape. | ABRASION |
A collection of pus in a cavity surrounded by inflamed tissue. | ABSCESS |
Suture material that is gradually digested by tissue enzymes and absorbed by the body. | ABSORBABLE SUTURE |
The process of bringing two parts, such as tissue, together through the use of sutures or other means. | APPROXIMATION |
A strip of woven material used to wrap or cover a part of the body. | BANDAGE |
The surgical removal and examination of tissue from the living body. Biopsies are generally performed to determine whether a tumor is benign or malignant. | BIOPSY |
The action that causes liquid to rise along a wick, a tube, or a gauze dressing. | CAPILLARY ACTION |
A lighted instrument with a binocular magnifying lens used to examine the vagina and cervix. | COLPOSCOPE |
The visual examination of the vagina and cervix using a colposcope. | COLPOSCOPY |
As it relates to sterile technique, to cause a sterile object or surface to become unsterile. | CONTAMINATE |
An injury to the tissues under the skin that causes blood vessels to rupture, allowing blood to seep into the tissues; a bruise. | CONTUSION |
The therapeutic use of freezing temperatures to destroy abnormal tissue. | CRYOSURGERY |
A discharge produced by the body's tissues. | EXUDATE |
An immature cell from which connective tissue can develop. | FIBROBLAST |
A two-pronged instrument for grasping and squeezing. | FORCEPS |
A localized staphylococcal infection that originates deep within a hair follicle. Also known as a boil. | FURUNCLE |
The arrest of bleeding by natural or artifical means. | HEMOSTASIS |
A clean cut caused by a cutting instrument. | INCISION |
The condition in which the body, or part of it, is invaded by a pathogen. | INFECTION |
The process by which a substance passes into and is deposited within the substance of a cell, tissue, or organ. | INFILTRATION |
A protective response of the body to trauma and the entance of foreign matter. The purpose of inflammation is to destroy invading microorganisms and to repair injured tissue. | INFLAMMATION |
A wound in which the tissues are torn apart, leaving ragged and irregular edges. | LACERATION |
To tie off and close a structure such as a severed blood vessel. | LIGATE |
A drug that produces a loss of feeling and an inability to perceive pain in only a specific part of the body. | LOCAL ANESTHETIC |
A broad, flat metal tray placed on a stand and used to hold sterile instruments and supplies when it has been covered with a sterile towel. | MAYO TRAY |
A type of biopsy in which tissue from deep within the body is obtained by the insertion of a biopsy needle through the skin. | NEEDLE BIOPSY |
Suture material that is not absorbed by the body and either remains permanently in the body tissue and becomes encapsulated by fibrous tissue or is removed. | NONABSORBABLE SUTURE |
After a surgical operation. | POSTOPERATIVE |
Preceding a surgical operation.. | PREOPERATIVE |
A wound made by a sharp pointed object piercing the skin. | PUNCTURE |
A surgical knife used to divide tissues. | SCALPEL |
A cutting instrument. | SCISSORS |
A thin, closed sac or capsule that contains fatty secretions from a sebaceous gland. | SEBACEOUS CYST |
The clear, straw-colored part of the blood that remains after the solid elements have been separated out of it. | SERUM |
Free of all living microorganisms and bacterial spores. | STERILE |
Practices that keep objects and areas sterile or free from microorganisms. | SURGICAL ASEPSIS |
Material used to approximate tissues with surgical stiches. | SUTURES |
A needle with suturing material permanently attached to its end. | SWAGED NEEDLE |
A break in the continuity of an external or internal surface caused by physical means. | WOUND |