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Bonewit Chapt 10
Minor Office Surgery (Allysa Jasper)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abrasion | a wound in which the outer layers of the skin are damaged; a scrape |
| abscess | a collection of pus in a cavitiy surrounded by inflamed tissue |
| absorbable suture | surture material tha 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 materials |
| 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 benign or malignant |
| capillary action | the action that cause liquid to rise along a wock, a tube, or a gauze dressing |
| colposcope | a lighted instrument with a binocular magnifying lens used to examine the vagina and cervix |
| contaminate | as it relates to sterile technique, to cause a sterile object or surface to become unsterile |
| contusion | an injury to the tissues inder the skin that cuases blood vessels to rupture, allowing blood to seep into the tissues; a bruise. |
| cryosurgery | the therapeutic use of freezing temperatures to destroy abnormal tissue |
| exudtae | a discharge produced by the bodys's tissues |
| fibroblast | am immature cell from which connective tissue cna devlop |
| forceps | a two-pronged instrument for grasping and squeezing |
| furuncle | a localozed staphylococcal infection that originates deep within a hair follicle. known as a boil |
| hemostasis | the arrest of bleeding by natural or artificial means |
| incision | a clean cut cause 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. Destroys invading MO's & removes damage tissue debris from the area so that proper healing can occur |
| 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 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 meatal 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 ehich tissue from deep within the body is obtained by the insertion of a biopsy needle through the skin |
| nonabsorbable suture | suture material that absorbed by the body and either remains permanentle in the body tissue and becomes encapsulated by fibrous tissue or is removed |
| postoperative | after asurgical 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, closed sac or capsule that conatins fatty secretiond from a sebaceous gland |
| serum | the clear, staw-colored part of the blood that remains after the soild elements have been separated out of it |
| sterile | free of all living MO's 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 disgnosis and treatment of cetain diseases |
| surgical asepsis | practices that keeps objects and areas sterile or free from MO's |
| sutures | material used to appoximate tissues with surgical stitches |
| swaged needle | a needle within suturing material permanently attached to its end |
| wound | a break in the continuity of an external or internal surface cause by physical means |
| colposcopy | the visual examination of the vagona and cervix using a colposcope |
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