Category: B

The treatment of diseases by bathing in hot water or water containing beneficial natural chemicals. Use of baths to treat disease, especially to relieve pain and improve circulation. The treatment of disease by bathing, usually in the mineral-containing waters of hot springs. The once fashionable ‘water cures’, taken at spas, certainly had a more psychological…

Method of examining the body by tapping or moving a part, especially during pregnancy. Checking for the correctness of position or the size of a floating part or organ or a fetus by gently flicking or bouncing it with the hand or finger(s) and feeling its response (e.g., an unborn child felt through the birth…

A tube that can be inserted into a blood vessel or other body part and then inflated, e.g. to widen a narrow artery. A thin, hollow tube with an inflatable balloon at its tip. A balloon catheter is used to compress the deposits, widen the artery, and restore normal blood flow when an artery is…

A bag of light material inflated with air or a gas, used to unblock arteries. To expand, dilate, or distend, as to expand a cavity by filling it with air or water in a bag.  

An artificial heart valve, formed of a silicon ball which moves inside a metal cage to open and shut the valve.  

The soft part of the hand below the thumb. The soft part of the foot below the big toe.  

A frame fitted above a bed to which a leg in plaster can be attached. A framework that fits over a bed. Weights suspended from the frame and connected through ropes and pulleys are used to produce continuous traction while permitting freedom of motion, thus maintaining desired immobilization of the part being treated. A structure…

The state of not having any hair. loss or absence of hair, commonly of the scalp. In male-pattern baldness the hairline recedes at the forehead and hair is lost at the back and top of the head.  

The round end of the penis. The glans penis or glans clitoridis. The rounded end of the penis, also known as the glans penis.  

An infestation of the large intestine by a parasite Balantidium coli, which causes ulceration of the wall of the intestine, leading to diarrhoea and finally dysentery. An infestation of the large intestine of man with the parasitic protozoan Balantidium coli. Man usually becomes infected by ingesting food or drink contaminated with cysts from the feces…