Category: C

A structure shaped like a cone.  

A wound caused by a blow where the skin is bruised as well as torn and bleeding. A bruise in which the skin is not broken. It may be caused by a blunt instrument. Injury of the tissues under the skin, leaving the skin unbroken, traumatizes the soft tissue. Ruptured blood vessels underneath the skin…

A trial in which members of one group are treated with a test substance and those of another group are treated with a placebo as a control. A scientific approach employed to evaluate the efficacy of novel therapies or to make comparisons between diverse treatment options. In a typical controlled pharmaceutical trial, two comparable sets…

The control of a person’s breathing by an anaesthetist during an operation, when regular breathing has stopped.  

An injury to one point of an organ such as the brain, caused by a blow received on an opposite point of the organ. Injury to one side that results from a blow to the opposite side (as a blow to the forehead causing damage to the back of the skull or rear part of…

A radio-opaque dye, or sometimes gas, put into an organ or part of the body so that it will show clearly in an X-ray photograph. Substance, administered orally, intravenously, or via enema, that is radiopaque when exposed to X rays. The administration of such a compound allows for examination by a radiologist of the tissue…

The tissue in muscle which makes the muscle contract.  

The capacity to contract.  

A method used in intensive care which forces air into the lungs of someone with lung collapse. A method for treating babies who suffer from alveolar collapse in the lung as a result of hyaline membrane disease.  

A method of dialysis of people while they are walking about. Dialysis in which fluid is infused into the peritoneum through an implanted catheter and then drained from the body after absorbing metabolic toxins. The peritoneal lining serves as the dialytic membrane. CAPD is an alternative to hemodialysis for patients with end-stage renal disease. It…