Category: S

  • Salt depletion

    Loss of salt from the body, by sweating or vomiting, which causes cramp. Loss of salt from the body by vomiting, diarrhea, profuse perspiration, or urination without replacement. Excessive loss of sodium chloride (common salt) from the body. This may result from sweating, persistent vomiting or diarrhea, or loss of fluid in wounds. The main…

  • Salpingostomy

    A surgical operation to open up a blocked Fallopian tube. Surgically created opening in one or both fallopian tubes to restore patency that has been lost by chronic inflammation or to drain fluid. A surgical procedure used to treat fallopian tubes that have become blocked at the end nearest nearest the ovary. In this procedure,…

  • Salpingo-oophorocele

    A hernia where a Fallopian tube and its ovary pass through a weak point in the surrounding tissue.  

  • Salpingo-oophoritis

    Inflammation of a Fallopian tube and the ovary connected to it.  

  • Salpingolysis

    A surgical operation to open up blocked Fallopian tubes by removing any adhesions near the ovaries. The surgical disruption of adhesions in a fallopian tube.  

  • Salpingography

    An X-ray examination of the Fallopian tubes. Radiography of one or both fallopian tubes after a radio-opaque substance has been introduced into them via an injection into the womb. Radiography of one or both fallopian tubes after radio-opaque material has been injected into them via the uterus. Radiography of the fallopian tubes after the introduction…

  • Salmonella poisoning

    Poisoning caused by Salmonellae which develop in the intestines.  

  • Salmeterol

    A drug which relaxes and widens the airways, used to treat severe asthma. An antisthma drug and a long-acting bronchodilator. Salmeterol (Serevent) is used with anti-inflammatory drugs to prevent asthma attacks. Salmeterol is unlike other drugs in its class (adrenergic bronchodilators), because it does not act quickly enough to relieve an attack of asthma that…

  • Salivate

    To produce saliva. To generate an abnormally large amount of saliva.  

  • Salivary calculus

    A stone which forms in a salivary gland. A calculus in the salivary duct. It usually affects the duct of the submandibular gland. The calculus obstructs the flow of saliva, causing severe pain and swelling of the gland, especially during eating. Surgical removal of the stone is the treatment. A calcified deposit within a duct…