Question | Answer |
Abrasion | A wound in which the outer layers of the skin are damaged; a scrape |
Adscess | A collection of pus in a 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 by the use of sutures or other means |
Bandage | A strip of woven material used to wrap or cover a part of the body |
Biopsy | The surgical removal and examination of tissue from the living body. Biopsies are generally performed to determine whether a tumor is malignant or benign. |
Capillary Action | The action that causes liquid to rise along a wick, a tube,or gauze dressing |
Colposcope | A lighted instrument with a binocular magnifying lens used to examine the vagina and cervix |
Colposcopy | The visual 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 unsterile |
Contusion | An injury to the tissues under the skin that causes blood vessels to rupture, allowing blood to seep into the tissue; a bruise |
Cryosurgery | The therapeutic use of freezing temperatures to destroy abnormal tissue |
Exudate | A discharge produced by the body's tissues |
Fibroblast | An immature cell from which connective tissue can develope |
Forceps | A two pronged instrument for grasping and squeezing |
Furuncle | A localized staphylococcal infection that originated deep within a hair follicle. Also known as a boil |
Hemostasis | The Arrest of bleeding by natural or artificial means |
Incision | A clan cut caused by 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 it deposited within the substance of a cell, tissue, or organ |
Inflammation | A protective response 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 tissues are torn apart, leaving ragged and irregular edges |
Ligate | To tie off and close a suture such as a severed blood vessel |
Local anesthetic | A drug that produces a loss of feeling 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 hols sterile instruments and supplies when is has been covered with a sterile towel |
Needle biopsy | A type of biopsy in which tissue from deep within the body is obtained by the insertion of a biopsy needle through the skin |
Nonabsorbable suture | 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 |
Postoperative | After A surgical operation |
Preoperative | Preceding a surgical operation |
Puncture | A wound made by a shard pointed object piercing the skin |
Scalpel | A surgical knife used to divide tissues |
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 of all living Microorganisms ad bacterial spored. |
Surgical asepsis | Practices that keep objects and areas free form microorganisms |
Sutures | Material used ti approximate tissues with surgical stitches |
Swaged needle | A needle with suturing material permanently attached to its end |
Wound | A break in the continuity of an external or internal surface caused by physical means |