Question | Answer |
ambrasion | a wound in which the outer layers of the skin are damaged; a scrape. |
abscess | a collection of pus in a cavity surrounded by inflamed tissue. |
absorbable suture | suture material that is gradually digested by tissue enzymes and absorbed by the body. |
approximation | the process of bringing two parts, such as tissue, together through the use of strures or other means. |
bandage | a strip of woven material used to wrap or cover a part of the boy |
biopsy | the surgical removal and examination of tissue from the living body. biopsies are generally performed to determine whether a tumor is benign or milignant. |
capillary action | the action that causes liquid to rise along the wick, a tube, or a gauze dressing. |
colpsocope | a lighted insturement with a binocular magnifying lens used to examine the vagina and cervix. |
colposcopy | the visual examination examination of the vagina and cervix using a colposcope |
contaminate | as it relates to sterile technique, to cause a sterile object or surface to become unseterile |
contusion | an injury to the tissues under the skin that causes blood vessels to rupture, allowing blood to seep into the tissue; bruise |
cryosurgery | the therapeutic use of freezing temperatures to destroy abnormal tissue |
exudate | a discharge produced by the bodys tissue |
fibroblast | an immature cell from which connective tissue can develop |
forcepts | a two-pronged instrument for grasping and squeezing |
furuncle | a localized staphylococcal infection that originates deep within a hair follicle. also known as a boil |
hemostasis | the arrest of bleeding by natural or artificial means |
incision | a clean cut caused by a cutting insturment |
incision | a clean cut caused by a cutting instrument |
infection | the condition in which the body, or part of it,is invaded by a pathogen |
infiltration | the process by which a substance passes into and is depositeed within the substance of a cell, tissue, or organ |
inflammation | a protective responce of the body to trauma and the entrance of foreign matter. the purpose of inflammation is to destroy invading microorganisms and to repair injured tissue. |
laceration | a wound in which the tissue are torn apart, leaving ragged and irregular edges. |
ligate | to tie off and close a structure such as a servered blood vessel |
local anestetic | a drug that produces a loss of felling and an inability to perceive pain in only a specific part of the body |
mayo tray | a broad, flat metal tray placed on a stand and used to hold sterile insturments and supplies when it has been covered with a sterile towl |
needle biopsy | a type of biopsy in which tissue from deep within the body is obtained by theinsertion of a biopsy needle through the skin |
nonabsorbabe suture | suture material that is not absorbed by the body and either remains permanently in the body and either remains permanently in the body tissue and becomes encapsulated by fibrous tissue or is removed |
postoperative | after a surgical operation |
preoperative | preceding a surgical operation |
puncture | a wound made by a sharp pointed object piercing the skin |
scalpel | a sergical knife used to divide tissue |
scissors | a cutting instrument |
sebaceous cyst | a thin, closed sac or capsule that contains fatty secretions from a sebaceous gland. |
serum | the clear, straw-colored part of the blood that remains after the solid elements have been seperated out of it. |
sterile | free from all microorgansims and bacterial spores |
surgical asepsis | practice that keeps objects and areas sterile or free from microrganisms. |
sutures | material used to approximate tissue with surgical stiches |
swaged needle | a needle with suuring material permanently attached to its end |
wound | a break in the continuity of an external or internal surface caused by physical means. |