Palabras que empiezan con L

A word ending that means stone or a hard mass.

A word ending that means a specialist who studies or treats something.

A word ending that means the study of something.

A word ending that means breaking down, loosening or destroying.

Labor and delivery: the hospital unit where patients give birth, with its own operating room for cesarean births.

A drug that blocks both alpha and beta receptors to lower blood pressure, given IV or by mouth.

The two outer folds of skin and fat of the vulva, covered with hair after puberty, that run back from the mons pubis on each side.

The two thin, hairless folds of skin inside the labia majora that enclose the vestibule, with the urethral and vaginal openings.

The process of childbirth, from the start of regular contractions that open the cervix to the delivery of the baby and placenta.

A place where samples such as blood, urine or tissue are tested, or the tests that are done there.

A lip of fibrocartilage around the rim of a joint socket, as in the shoulder and the hip, that deepens the socket.

A cut or tear in the skin or other tissue, often with jagged edges.

Having to do with tears or the glands and ducts that make and drain them.

The gland in the upper outer part of each eye socket that makes tears.

A word part that means milk.

A substance made when cells break down glucose for energy; its blood level is a common lab test.

An isotonic IV fluid containing water, sodium, chloride, potassium, calcium and lactate.

The making and release of milk by the breasts.

The tiny lymph vessel inside each villus of the small intestine that takes up digested fats.

Relating to milk, or to lactic acid, a substance cells make when they break down glucose without enough oxygen.

A type of metabolic acidosis in which lactic acid (lactate) builds up in the blood.

One of the milk ducts of the breast: each drains one lobe of the mammary gland and opens on the nipple.

A man-made sugar syrup that draws water into the bowel and lowers ammonia in the blood.

A screw used so that tightening it draws two pieces of broken bone firmly together.

A thin, flat plate; most often one of the two flat plates of bone that form the roof of a vertebra's arch.

A ventilation system that moves ultraclean air in one direction, in straight lines, to make a curtain of clean air over the sterile field.

Surgery that removes part or all of the lamina, the bony roof at the back of a vertebra, to take pressure off the spinal cord or nerve roots.

An oral antiviral drug used with other drugs to treat HIV, and alone to treat chronic hepatitis B.

An anticonvulsant drug used to prevent seizures and to keep mood stable in bipolar disorder.

Lines of tension in the skin that follow the direction of the fibers in the dermis; a cut along them usually heals with a finer scar.

A proton pump inhibitor: a drug that sharply lowers the amount of acid the stomach makes.

Fine, soft, downy hair that covers the body of a fetus.

A word root that means abdomen or abdominal wall.

A rigid telescope passed through a port in the abdominal wall to light and show the inside of the abdomen and pelvis during laparoscopy.

Done through a few small cuts in the abdomen with a thin camera and long instruments, instead of one large opening.

Surgery or an exam done through small cuts in the belly, using a thin, lighted tube with a camera.

Surgery that opens the abdomen through a large cut to reach the organs inside.

A large, flat, folded gauze pad with a radiopaque marker and a tape loop, used in the abdomen and chest.

Describes a newborn who weighs more than 90 out of 100 babies born after the same number of weeks of pregnancy.

The last part of the digestive tract, from the end of the small intestine to the anus, where water is absorbed and stool forms.

A word part that means the larynx, the voice box.

An airway tube with a small inflatable mask on its end that sits over the larynx from above, placed through the mouth without a laryngoscope.

Surgical removal of part or all of the larynx, most often for cancer.

Inflammation of the larynx, the voice box.

The lowest part of the throat, below the back of the mouth, where the airway and the food passage separate.

A lighted instrument with a handle and a blade, used to see the vocal cords so a breathing tube can be placed.

A sudden, involuntary closing of the vocal cords that partly or fully blocks air from entering the lungs.

The voice box: the part of the airway in the neck, above the windpipe, that holds the vocal cords.

A device that makes an intense, narrow beam of light of one wavelength, used in surgery to cut, vaporize or coagulate tissue.

The trained person given the authority to run a facility's laser safety program, from hazard zones and eyewear to training and incident reviews.