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| surgical puncture to asperate or remove fluid |
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| excision (surgical removal or cutting out) |
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| process of loosening, freeing or destroying |
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| surgical fixation (fastening in a fixed position) |
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| suture (uniting a wound by stitches) |
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| an instrument used for cutting |
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| incision (cutting into tissue) |
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gland
Adenoids were so named because they resembled or were thought to be glands |
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vessel
An angiogram is an x-ray film of blood vessels filled with a constrast medium. |
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appendix
Anappendectomy is excision of the appendix. |
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eyelid
Blepharoptosis is the drooping of the upper eyelid. |
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heart
A cardiac arrest is a heart attack. |
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brain
(cerebr/r sometimes means cerebrum, the main portion of the brain.)
Cerebral palsy is paralysis caused by a brain defect. Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain. |
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hand
Writer's cramp is a type of chirospasm. |
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