Surgical

Incision and drainage: cutting open an abscess or collection so pus or fluid can drain out.

A urinary diversion in which the ureters drain into a short, isolated piece of ileum brought out through the skin as a stoma, where a bag collects the urine.

The ring of muscle where the ileum, the end of the small intestine, opens into the cecum, the first part of the large intestine.

A surgical opening that brings the end of the ileum through the belly wall, so stool leaves the body there.

A slowing or stopping of the normal movement of the intestines, with nothing physically blocking them.

Having to do with the ilium, the large, wing-shaped upper part of the hip bone.

The long, curved upper edge of the ilium, the wing of the hip bone, felt at the side of the waist; the most common site for taking a bone graft.

The part of a fluoroscope that receives the x-rays after they pass through the patient and turns them into a bright image on a monitor.

Surgery that uses the patient's 3D scans and real-time tracking to show the surgeon exactly where an instrument is inside the body.

Steam sterilizing an urgently needed item, with little or no drying, for use right away; once called flash sterilization.

A health care worker whose ability to work safely is weakened, most often by alcohol or drug use.

Not letting fluid pass through.

In cleaning, jets of water striking instruments to blast off soil; in orthopedics, soft tissue or bone pinched between bones as a joint moves.

A device or material placed inside the body, such as an artificial joint, pacemaker or birth control rod.

A small device placed under the skin with leads in the heart that watches the rhythm and shocks the heart out of a dangerous fast rhythm.

A medical device placed in a surgically or naturally formed body cavity to stay for 30 days or more, such as a joint, plate, mesh or pacemaker.

A hand-held device that helps a person take slow, deep breaths and shows how much air they breathe in.

A clear plastic drape with an adhesive back that is pressed onto the prepped skin, and the incision is made through it.

A clean cut made through the skin and tissue during surgery.

A biopsy that removes only a piece of a lump or lesion for diagnosis, leaving the rest in place.

A blue dye given into a vein that colors the urine, so the surgeon can see the ureteral openings or find a leak from a ureter or the bladder.

Sealing a vessel by touching the active electrode to a clamp or forceps holding it, so the current runs down the instrument to the tissue.

A groin hernia that enters the inguinal canal through the deep inguinal ring, lateral to the inferior epigastric vessels, and may reach the scrotum or labia.

A green dye given into a vein that glows under near-infrared light, used to show blood flow and other structures during surgery and in eye angiography.

The starting of a process on purpose, such as bringing on labor or putting a client under anesthesia.

The artery and veins that branch from the external iliac vessels and run up the inside of the lower abdominal wall behind the rectus muscle.

The first phase of wound healing, from the injury to about day 3 to 5, when bleeding stops, a clot seals the wound and white cells clean it.

A person's agreement to a treatment or procedure, given freely after the risks, benefits and other choices have been explained to them.

A tunnel about 4 cm long through the lower abdominal wall, above the inguinal ligament, holding the spermatic cord in a male and the round ligament in a female.

A standard group of instruments packed and sterilized together in a tray or container for one kind of procedure.

A computer system that follows instrument sets, and single instruments, through use, cleaning, sterilization and storage, and links them to each patient.

Blowing a gas into a body cavity, such as carbon dioxide into the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery.

A crack, hole or thin spot in an electrosurgical instrument's insulation that lets current escape and burn whatever it touches.

A material that resists the flow of electric current, such as glass, rubber or plastic, used to keep current inside a conductor.

The layers of muscle between the ribs that move the ribs in breathing and close the spaces of the chest wall.

The space between two neighboring ribs, filled by the intercostal muscles and the nerve and blood vessels that run along each rib.

Disinfection that kills mycobacteria such as TB, bacteria, most viruses and fungi, but not bacterial spores.

Holding broken or cut bone in place from inside the body with implants such as plates, screws, rods, nails, pins or wires until it heals.

An artery that branches from the subclavian artery and runs down the inside of the front chest wall beside the sternum; the favored coronary bypass graft.

A row of separate stitches, each placed, tied and cut on its own.

Finding and treating disease through a needle or a thin catheter steered by medical images, in place of an open incision.

A pad of fibrocartilage between the bodies of two vertebrae that binds them together, cushions them and lets the spine bend.

An artificial lens implanted in the eye to replace the natural lens, most often in cataract surgery.

Happening during surgery, from when the client is brought into the operating room until they are moved to recovery.

A patient under general anesthesia becoming aware during the operation, sometimes feeling pain, without being able to move or tell anyone.

Iodine joined to a carrier that releases it slowly, used as a skin antiseptic; povidone-iodine is the common one.

Radiation with enough energy to knock electrons out of atoms, such as x-rays and gamma rays, which can damage living cells and their DNA.

Surgical removal of a small piece of the iris, so aqueous humor can flow from behind the iris to the front chamber again.

A small hole made through the iris, usually with a laser, without removing any iris tissue, to let aqueous humor drain.

A sterile solution used to wash or flush a wound, a body cavity or the inside of an organ during surgery.