Surgical

A word ending that means a surgically made opening, usually to the outside of the body.

A word ending that means cutting into, or a surgical incision.

A mobile x-ray unit built as an open ring around the patient that makes 3D images in real time during an operation.

A smooth-tipped rod that fits inside a tube, such as a tracheostomy tube or cannula, to guide it in and then is taken out.

The bone that forms the back and most of the base of the skull, with the foramen magnum where the spinal cord joins the brainstem.

Closing something off, or sealed so that air and water cannot pass through.

A reflex in which pulling on an eye muscle, or a block behind the eye, slows the heart through the vagus nerve.

Surgical removal of a tooth.

The upper end of the ulna that forms the point of the elbow and receives the tendon of the triceps.

A double fold of peritoneum hanging from the stomach: the greater omentum like an apron over the intestines, the lesser omentum up to the liver.

Surgery to remove one or both ovaries.

Putting on sterile gloves without a gown, with bare hands touching only the glove's folded-back inside cuff.

Putting the pieces of a broken bone back into line through a surgical incision, with the fracture exposed and seen directly.

A large microscope on a ceiling or floor stand that magnifies and lights the field for very fine surgery.

A room in a hospital or surgery center that is specially set up and kept for performing surgery.

The adjustable table, also called the OR bed, that holds the patient during surgery and moves to put the surgical site within reach.

Operating room, the hospital room where surgery is done; in research articles OR can also mean odds ratio.

A curved plastic device placed in the mouth over the tongue to keep the tongue from falling back and blocking the throat.

Surgery that fixes a testis in place in the scrotum, most often to bring down a testis that has not descended.

The giving of organs or tissues, by a living person or after death, for transplant into another person.

The surgical recovery of organs from a donor for transplant, and the system that arranges it.

Open reduction internal fixation: surgery that opens the skin to line up a broken bone and hold it with plates, screws or rods.

A high-level disinfectant used for flexible endoscopes and other semi-critical items; it is called OPA.

Planned surgery that cuts and moves the jaws so the teeth meet properly and the face works and looks better.

Having to do with the bones, joints, muscles, ligaments and tendons, and the branch of medicine that treats them.

Surgery on the bones, joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles.

The direct joining of living bone to the surface of an implant, which locks the implant in place.

The three tiny bones of the middle ear, the malleus, incus and stapes, which carry sound from the eardrum to the inner ear.

A surgically made opening from an inside organ, such as the bowel or urinary tract, through the belly wall to the outside.

The medical and surgical specialty of the ear, the nose and the throat, with the head and neck around them.

An absorbable knitted gauze or fiber that swells into a gel when it touches blood and helps a clot form; Surgicel is one brand.

A substance that supports burning; in the OR, oxygen and nitrous oxide, one side of the fire triangle.

Low-temperature sterilization with ozone, a form of oxygen with three atoms, made inside the sterilizer from oxygen and water.