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Bonewit chapter 10
Minor office surgery
Question | Answer |
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Abrasion | 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 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. biopsies are generally performed to determine whether a tumor is being or malignant. |
Capillary action | the action that causes a 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 vagina and the cervix |
Colposcopy | the visual examination of the vagina and the cervix using a colposcope |
Contaminate | as it related to sterile technique, to cause a sterile object or surface to become unsterile |
Contusion | an injury to the tissues under the skin that caused blood vessels to rupture, allowing blood to seep into tissues;a bruise |
Cryosurgery | the thereputic 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 develop |
Forceps | a two-pronged instrument for grasping and squeezing |
Furuncle | a localized staphylococcal infection that originates deep within a hair follicle. AKA a boil |
Hemostasis | the arrest of bleeding by a natural or artificial means |
Incision | a clean cut caused by a cutting instrument |
Infection | the condition in which the bod, or part of it, is invaded by a pthogen |
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. the purpose of inflammation is to destroy invading MOs and to repair injuries |
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 inability to perceive pain in only a specific part o 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 permanetly in the body tissue and becomes encapsulated by fibrous tissue or it 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 tissue |
Scissors | a cutting instrument |
Sebaceous cyst | a thin,closed sac 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 MOs and bacterial spores |
Surgical asepsis | practices that keep objects and areas sterile or free from MO's |
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 |