Surgical

• Cauterizing


  Destroying tissue by burning
• Clamps


  Implement used to grasp a body part during surgery
• Closed


  Performed with incision
• Cosmetic


  Designed to improve the appearance of an exterior body part
• Cryogenic


  Destroying tissue by freezing
• Curette


  Sharp instrument for scraping tissue
• Diagnostic


  Helping finalize a diagnosis
• Dilator


  Implement used to enlarge an opening
• Forceps


  Surgical implement used to grasp and remove something
• Manipulative


  Done without incision, as in the reduction of a fracture
• Minimally invasive


  Done with the smallest incision possible, such as the clearing of arterial blockages with tiny probes that use laser
• Needle holder


  Surgical forceps used to hold and pass a suturing needle through tissue
• Operation


  Any surgical procedure, such as the removal, transplant, or manipulation of tissue
• Preventive


  Designed to stop or prevent disease
• Probe


  Sharp device for exploring body cavities or clearing blockage
• Reconstructive


  Designed to restore a body part to its original state of appearance
• Retractor


  An instrument used to hold back edges of tissue and organs to expose other tissues or parts
• Scalpel


  Knife used in surgery or dissection
• Standard Precaution


  Guidelines issued by the CDC for preventing the spread of diseases
• Staples


  Metal devices used to suture surgical incision
• Surgery


  Removal, Transplant, or manipulation of tissue
• Surgical scissors


  Scissors used for cutting and dissecting tissue during surgery
• Suture Needle


  Needle used in closing surgical wounds by sewing
• aseptic


  germ-free
• cine


  movement
• Cinecardiography


  radiography of an organ motion
• electr(o)


  Electric, electricity
• Electrocardiogram


  graphic record of heart’s electrical current
• fluor(o)


  Light, luminous
• Fluoroscopy


  deep tissue examination by x-ray
• micr(o)


  Small, microscopic
• Microsurgery


  surgery that used microscope
• radi(o)


  radiation
• Radiopaque


  impenetrable to radiation
• son(o)


  sound
• Sonogram


  ultrasound image
• ultra


  beyond
• Ultrasound


  imaging using sound frequency beyond certain frequency
• -Centesis


  puncture
• Amniocentesis


  retrieval of the amniotic fluid through a needle inserted to amnion