Medical Terminology/Positioning

General Surgery
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OBGYN
100
What medical term means moving a body part away from the midline?

Abduction

100

   A McBurney incision is used for surgical procedures of the ____________.  

Appendix

100

Twisting of an organ or a structure on itself is ________.  

Torsion

100

What is the term for creating a surgical opening into the tympanic membrane?

Myringotomy

100

A tubal ligation is performed for what reason?

Elective Sterilization

200

Evisceration of an abdominal wound is:

Protrusion of viscera through all tissue layers

200

The triangle of Calot is an anatomical space bounded by structures in which surgical procedure?

Cholecystectomy

200

   _______ uses a rigid or flexible scope, which is inserted through the urethra and advanced into the renal pelvis and ureter.  

Ureteroscope

200

How should micro ear instruments be cleaned intraoperatively?

Wiped with a micro-wipe sponge

200

What is the name of the heavy, right-angle scissors frequently used to dissect around the cervix during a hysterectomy?

Jorgenson Scissors

300

What is the medical term for a bony prominence projecting from a bone, as in a bunion?

Exostosis

300

Name three self-retaining retractors used in surgery.

Weitlander, O'Connor-O'Sullivan, Balfour

300

The ________ glands are paired organs that lie on the medial side of the upper kidney.

Adrenal

300

Care must be taken when preauricular and submandibular incisions are made to protect which cranial nerve?

Seventh (VII)

300

Surgical removal of the entire breast without any lymph nodes is a(n):

Simple Mastectomy

400

What laryngeal cartilage is known as the "Adam's Apple"?

Thyroid Cartilage

400

A wound that is not sutured and that gradually fills in by granulation heals by which intention?

Secondary intention

400

   Backward (opposite of its normal direction) flow of a body fluid is _______.  

Reflux

400

During a tracheostomy, the ________ is kept with the patient in his or her room.  

Obturator

400

   The ________ is a thick organ that adheres to the uterus on the maternal side.  

Placenta

500

What is the medical term for spongy bone?

Cancellous

500

Pancreaticoduodenectomy is also known as which of the following procedures?

Whipple

500

   _____________ patients are extremely careful of their AV access sites and need to take precautions to prevent injury at the site.  

Hemodialysis

500

A cochlear implant is used to transmit external sound directly to the _______________.  

Eighth cranial nerve

500

_____________ focuses on the treatment and prevention of diseases affecting the female reproductive system.

Gynecology

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