Category: B

A surgical operation to redirect the blood, usually using a grafted blood vessel and usually performed when one of the person’s own blood vessels is blocked. Any surgically created, temporary or permanent channel or route around a part, esp. a part that has been damaged (e.g., a coronary bypass); a shunt. To go around. In…

A surgical operation through a small hole in the body, using an endoscope.  

A barbiturate drug used as a sedative and hypnotic.  

A trade name for a form of hyoscine.  

An act of allowing air in the stomach to come up through the mouth.  

A special department in a hospital which deals with burns.  

Referring to a feeling similar to that of being hurt by fire.  

A malignant tumour, usually on the maxilla, found especially in children in Africa [Described 1957. After Denis Parsons Burkitt (1911-93), formerly Senior Surgeon, Kampala, Uganda; later a member of the Medical Research Council (UK).]  

A powerful local anaesthetic, used in epidural anaesthesia. A potent local anesthetic, used mainly for regional ‘nerve block. It is significantly longer-acting than many other local anesthetics. It has been used in childbirth, but may cause slowing of the baby’s heart, with a risk of death. A local anaesthetic, about four times as potent as…

A type of congenital glaucoma occurring in infants. An abnormal enlargement of the eye. The outer layers of the eye are oversized and distended. Buphthalmos, which comes from two Greek roots meaning “ox eye,” is also known as infantile glaucoma or megophthalmos (Greek, meaning “big eye”). Infantile or congenital glaucoma: increased pressure within the eye…