Category: N

A leucocyte which has no granules, e.g. a lymphocyte or monocyte.  

A surgical operation which does not need to be performed immediately because it is for a condition which is not life-threatening, e.g. joint replacement.  

Referring to a person who is mentally incapable of managing his or her own affairs.  

The failure to take drugs at the correct times and in the dosages prescribed, or to take them at all.  

Referring to the wider non-medical aspects of patient care.  

Not aggravating an allergy.  

An injury which is not caused accidentally.  

A suture made of a substance which cannot be absorbed into the body and which eventually has to be removed.  

One of a series of gaps in the myelin sheath surrounding a nerve fibre. One of the gaps that occur at regular intervals in the myelin sheath of medullated nerve fibers, between adjacent Schwann cells. A space between adjacent Schwann cells along a nerve fiber; no myelin sheath is present.  

A sudden attack of rapid heartbeats. Tachycardia resulting from a focus in the atrioventricular node. It may be the result of digitalis therapy.