Category: S

The freeing of a trapped body part, e.g., the operative release of a nerve from entrapment by neighboring structures.  

A chemical change by which a molecule of a single compound breaks into its simpler constituents or substitutes the entire molecule of another body for one of these constituents.  

Painful swelling of the feet and hands during the first several years of life in children with sickle cell anemia.  

Surgical opening of the bladder from just above the symphysis pubis; any of several catheters are placed in the opening to facilitate drainage.  

A cyst filled with a clear serous fluid and lined with cuboidal epithelial cells.  

Accumulation of synovia in a bursa, synovial crypt, or sac of a synovial hernia, causing a tumor.  

A cyst of the hypophyseal stalk just above the floor of the sell aturcica. Its wall is frequently calcified or ossified.  

A cyst of the epididymis, ductus deferens, or other sperm-carrying ducts that contain semen.  

An eccentric muscle contraction followed immediately by a concentric contraction. The elastic potentiation that occurs during the eccentric phase increases the force of output of the concentric contraction. Exercises incorporating this phenomenon are called plyometrics.  

A cycle in assisted reproduction in which a woman receives drugs to stimulate her ovaries for production of additional follicles.