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Referring to a condition which can be treated by a surgical operation. A descriptor used for a condition that is apt for surgical intervention, like a noncancerous tumor that is easily reachable. Describes a situation where surgery presents a viable chance of betterment. In the context of cancer, it suggests that the cancer hasn’t metastasized…

An arrangement in a hospital by which visitors can enter the wards at any time.  

A place where something opens. The act of making or becoming open.  

Surgery to repair part of the heart or one of the coronary arteries performed while the heart has been bypassed and the blood is circulated by a pump. A procedure in which the heart is operated on after it is exposed through a surgical incision in the chest wall. During the surgery, a heart-lung machine…

An unusually high pressure of fluid inside the eyeball caused by a blockage in the channel through which the aqueous humour drains. Another term for chronic simple glaucoma is a slow increase in fluid pressure within the eye.  

The fact of becoming opaque, as the lens does in a case of cataract. Clouding of a part or loss of transparency, especially of the cornea or lens of the eye.  

A surgical operation to remove an ovary and the Fallopian tube attached to it. Surgical removal of one or both ovaries and the corresponding oviducts (fallopian tubes); performed to remove a cyst, tumor, or abscess or to treat endometriosis. Surgical excision of the ovary and the Fallopian tube.  

A surgical operation to attach an ovary.  

A rare ovarian tumour, occurring in middle age.  

The development of one or more ovarian cysts.