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Minor office surgery

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Abrasion   a wound in which the outer layers of the skin are damaged; a scrape  
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Abscess   a collection of pus in a cavity surrounded by inflamed tissue  
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Absorbable suture   suture material that is gradually digested by tissue enzymes and absorbed by the body.  
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Approximation   the process of bringing two parts, such tissue, together through the use of sutures or other means.  
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Bandage   a strip of woven material used to wrap or cover a part of the body.  
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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.  
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Capillary action   the action that causes a liquid to rise along a wick,a tube,or a gauze dressing.  
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Colposcope   a lighted instrument with a binocular magnifying lens used to examine the vagina and the cervix  
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Colposcopy   the visual examination of the vagina and the cervix using a colposcope  
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Contaminate   as it related to sterile technique, to cause a sterile object or surface to become unsterile  
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Contusion   an injury to the tissues under the skin that caused blood vessels to rupture, allowing blood to seep into tissues;a bruise  
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Cryosurgery   the thereputic use of freezing temperatures to destroy abnormal tissue  
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Exudate   a discharge produced by the body's tissues  
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Fibroblast   an immature cell from which connective tissue can develop  
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Forceps   a two-pronged instrument for grasping and squeezing  
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Furuncle   a localized staphylococcal infection that originates deep within a hair follicle. AKA a boil  
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Hemostasis   the arrest of bleeding by a natural or artificial means  
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Incision   a clean cut caused by a cutting instrument  
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Infection   the condition in which the bod, or part of it, is invaded by a pthogen  
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Infiltration   the process by which a substance passes into and is deposited within the substance of a cell,tissue, or organ  
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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  
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Laceration   a wound in which the tissues are torn apart, leaving ragged and irregular edges  
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Ligate   to tie off and close a structure such as a severed blood vessel  
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Local anesthetic   a drug that produces a loss of feeling and inability to perceive pain in only a specific part o the body  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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Postoperative   after a surgical operation  
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Preoperative   preceding a surgical operation  
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Puncture   a wound made by a sharp pointed object piercing the skin  
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Scalpel   a surgical knife used to divide tissue  
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Scissors   a cutting instrument  
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Sebaceous cyst   a thin,closed sac that contains fatty secretions from a sebaceous gland  
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Serum   the clear,straw colored part of the blood that remains after the solid elements have been separated out of it  
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Sterile   free of all living MOs and bacterial spores  
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Surgical asepsis   practices that keep objects and areas sterile or free from MO's  
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Sutures   material used to approximate tissues with surgical stitches  
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Swaged needle   a needle with suturing material permanently attached to its end  
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Wound   a break in the continuity of an external or internal surface caused by physical means  
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