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Bonewit #10
Minor Office Surgery -Libby
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abrasion | A wound in which the outer layers of 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 and absorbed by the body |
| Approximation | The process of bringing two parts, such as tissue, together through 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 |
| Capillary action | The action causes liquid to rise along a wick, a tube, or a gauze dressing |
| Colposcope | A lighted instrument with a binocular magnifying lens used to examine the vaginal 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 tissues; bruise |
| cryosurgery | The therapeutic use of freezing temp to destroy abnormal tissue |
| Exudate | A discharge produced by the body's tissues |
| Fibroblast | an immature cell from which connective tissue can develop |
| Forceps | A two-pronged instrument for grasping and squeezing |
| Furuncle | A localized staphylococcal infection that originates deep within a hair follicle |
| Hemostasis | The arrest of bleeding by natural or artificial means |
| 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 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 |
| Laceration | A wound in which the tissues are torn apart, leaving ragged and irregular edges |
| Ligate | To tie off and close a structure 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 hold sterile instruments and supplies when it 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 sharp-pointed object piercing the skin |
| Scalpel | A surgical knife used to divide tissues |
| Scissors | A cutting instrument |
| Sebaceous cyst | A thin, close 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 separated out of it |
| Sterile | Free of all living mo and bacterial spores |
| Surgery | 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 |
| Surgical asepsis | Practices that keep objects and areas sterile or free from mo |
| Sutures | Material used to 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 |