Category: M

Instinctive feelings in a woman to look after and protect her child.  

Difficult childbirth caused by a physical problem in the mother.  

Referring to a mother.  

Matter which can be used to make something. Cloth. All that is necessary in surgery. The substance from which something may be made, constructed, or created.  

To examine two things to see if they are similar or fit together. To fit together in a specific way.  

To excite one’s own genitals so as to produce an orgasm.  

A surgical operation to make a cut into the mastoid process to treat infection. Surgical incision of the mastoid bone, usually done to treat infection. Surgical cutting into the mastoid air cells behind the ear.  

A surgical operation to remove part of the mastoid process, as a treatment for mastoiditis. Surgical removal of part of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone, done to treat chronic otitis media or mastoiditis, when antibiotics are not effective. Surgical removal of the distal portion of the mastoid bone (mastoid process) and portions of…

A cavity linking the air cells of the mastoid process with the middle ear. A hollow space within the temporal bone of the skull that connects with both the mastoid cells and the middle ear. The hollow space located around the mastoid bone behind the ear.  

An air cell in the mastoid process.