Category: S

Impulse to commit suicide combined with melancholia.  

Treatment with an agent, usually in tablet form, placed under the tongue.  

Any material that has been used in medical care (or other industries) which cannot be reused without reprocessing, reclamation, or decontamination.  

Mastoiditis in which there is thickening and hardening of trabeculae between mastoid cells.  

Painful distention of the breast occurring during early lactation.  

A device attached to an intra-arterial catheter, which is used to measure blood pressures within arteries.  

Manometer that uses a special hollow tube shaped like the letter U and open at both ends. The tube is partially filled with saline. Pressure is determined by connecting one end of the U tube to the system in which pressure is to be measured. The pressure, in millimeters of saline, is the measured distance…

In chiropractic, a thrusting of the spine to reduce subluxation. It is a standard, effective treatment of uncomplicated acute low back pain.  

A measurable loss of body fluid (e.g., blood, diarrhea, urine, vomit). If sensible losses consistently exceed fluid intake, dehydration may result.  

An intravenous portal, usually placed and left in a vein in one of the patient’s arms, that is used episodically for fluid or medication infusions. Salt water flushes are used to maintain its patency. Saline locks replaced heparin locks in the 1990s because of cost and efficacy, and the latter posed a rare but unacceptable…