Bonewit Chapt 10 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
A wound in which the outer layers of the skin are damaged; a scrape | Abrasion |
A collection of pus in a cavity surrounded by inflammed tissue | Abscess |
Suture material that is gradually digested and absorbed by the body | Absorbable suture |
The process of bringing two parts, such as tissue, together through the use of suture 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 tissue 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 bodys 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 whihc 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 entrance of foreign matter. The purpose of inflammation is to destroy invading microorganisms and to remove damaged tissue debris from the area so that proper healing can occur | 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 |
The branch of medicine that deals with operative and manual procedures for correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and treatment of certain diseases | Surgery |
Practices that keep objects and areas sterile or free from microorganisms | Surgical asepsis |
Material used to approximate tissues with surgical stitches | Sutures |
A needle with suturing material permanently attached to its end | Swaged needle |
A break in the continuity of an external or interal surface caused by physical means. | Wound |
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