Surgical

A sickle-shaped fold of peritoneum that ties the liver to the front abdominal wall and the underside of the diaphragm.

A sheet or band of tough connective tissue that covers and separates muscles and organs.

Surgery that cuts open the fascia, the tough tissue around a group of muscles, to relieve pressure inside it.

An operation that carries blood around a blocked femoral artery through a graft from the femoral artery in the groin to the popliteal artery at the knee.

A sterile drape with an opening, or window, that is placed over the incision site, made in shapes for each part of the body.

Carrying light, or an image, along a bundle of fine glass or plastic fibers.

A small marker placed on or in the patient that shows on images and gives a computer, or a radiation team, a fixed reference point.

The three things every fire needs, fuel, an oxidizer and an ignition source, all of which are present in every operation.

A stock rotation rule: the oldest items are used first, so nothing sits on the shelf until it expires or wears.

Healing of a clean wound whose edges are brought together soon after it is made, as with sutures or staples, leaving a thin, flat scar.

An abnormal passage between two organs or vessels, or between an organ and the skin.

A solution that preserves cells or tissue in a stable state so a pathologist can examine them later; formalin is the most common.

The side of the trunk between the lowest ribs and the top of the hip bone, over the kidney.

An incision along the 11th or 12th rib, with the patient on one side, that reaches the kidney, adrenal gland and upper ureter.

Imaging during surgery in which a fluorescent dye, usually indocyanine green, glows under near-infrared light to show blood flow and other structures.

An x-ray method that shows moving pictures of the inside of the body in real time.

Clouding of a scope's lens when the cool lens meets warm, moist air inside the body.

Warming a patient with a machine that blows warm air through a hose into a paper and plastic blanket laid over or under them.

A hand instrument with two blades or arms used to grasp, hold or pull tissue or objects.

Items removed from or worn by a patient, such as bullets, blades, fragments and clothing, that the police may need in a criminal case.

A solution of formaldehyde in water used to preserve tissue specimens for the pathology lab.

An orthopedic OR table that holds the patient's operative leg in traction, so a hip or femur fracture can be set and fixed under fluoroscopy.

A thin, angled suction tip with a thumb hole on its handle, for small spaces such as the nose, ear, spine and skull.

A pre-cut strand of suture with no needle, placed in the surgeon's hand to tie around a clamped vessel or other structure.

The scale that sizes catheters, tubes and dilators by their outside diameter, each unit (1 Fr) about one third of a millimeter.

An eyed suture needle with a slit above the eye, so the strand is snapped in from above rather than threaded through.

The number of times a wave repeats each second; for alternating current, how often it changes direction, measured in hertz (Hz).

Plasma from donated blood, frozen within 8 hours to keep its clotting factors, given to a bleeding patient who has a clotting problem.

Tissue that the pathologist freezes, slices thin and examines at once while the patient is still in surgery, to guide the operation.

Coagulating the surface of tissue with sparks of high-voltage electrosurgical current from a tip held just above it.

An antireflux operation that wraps the top of the stomach (the fundus) around the lower esophagus so it acts as a new valve.

Able to kill fungi, such as yeasts and molds.