Essential Medical and Surgical Terminology Definitions
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Essential Medical and Surgical Terminology
Anaesthetic
A substance that induces insensitivity to pain.
Cosmetic
Involving or relating to treatment intended to restore or improve a person's appearance.
Cure
A substance or treatment that cures a disease or condition.
Enlarge
Make or become bigger or more extensive.
Ethical
Relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these.
Incision
A surgical cut made in skin or flesh.
Infection
The process of infecting or the state of being infected.
Inject
Drive or force (a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine) into a person or animal's body with a syringe or similar device.
Intervention
Action taken to improve a situation, especially a medical disorder.
Needle
A very fine slender piece of metal with a point at one end and a hole or eye for thread at the other, used in sewing. Alternatively, the pointed hollow end of a hypodermic syringe.
Operating Theatre
A room in a hospital specially equipped for surgical operations.
Perform
Carry out, accomplish, or fulfill (an action, task, or function).
Pin-back
Can be temporarily fastened to the surface of a garment using a safety pin, or a pin formed from wire, a clutch or other mechanism.
Procedure
An established or official way of doing something in a surgical operation.
Reconstruct
Build or form (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed.
Recover
Return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.
Reduce
Make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.
Remove
Take (something) away or off from the position occupied.
Replace
Take the place of, put (something) back in a previous place or position.
Reshape
Shape or form (something) differently or again.
Scalpel
A knife with a small, sharp, sometimes detachable blade, as used by a surgeon.
Scissors
A cutting instrument having two blades whose cutting edges slide past each other.
Stitches
A sudden sharp pain in the side of the body, caused by strenuous exercise.
Syringe
A tube with a nozzle and piston or bulb for sucking in and ejecting liquid in a thin stream, used for cleaning wounds or body cavities, or fitted with a hollow needle for injecting or withdrawing fluids.
Surgeon
A medical practitioner qualified to practice surgery.
Treat
Give medical care or attention to; try to heal or cure.
Undergo
Experience or be subjected to (something, typically something unpleasant, painful, or arduous).
Aesthetic
Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
Damage
Physical harm caused to something in such a way as to impair its value, usefulness, or normal function.
Health
The state of being free from illness or injury; a person's mental or physical condition.