Category: C

Use of external pressure to compress the bladder and express urine when nervous impulses are interrupted. The means whereby the placenta is expelled by downward pressure on the uterus through the abdominal wall with the thumb on the posterior surface of the fundus uteri and the flat of the hand on the anterior surface, the…

Surgical procedure of opening the skull and removing a portion of the bone. Opening of the skull and removal of a portion of it.  

Pain and inflammation of the hip joint due to arthritis.  

Deformity of the angle of the femoral neck resulting in outward displacement. A deformity produced when the angle of the head of the femur with the shaft is increased above 120°, as opposed to coxa vara.  

Enlargement of the femoral head causing osteoarthritis of the joint.  

Brain injury with damage occurring on side of impact and on the opposite side of impact due to the forward and backward motion of the brain within the skull.  

The area where the costal cartilage meets the bone of the rib.  

Surgical shunting of heart blood vessels around areas of blockage to restore supply to the heart muscle.  

Use of a machine to replace and override any impulse to breathe in an intubated patient.  

Device that increases range of motion and stimulates healing of the articular cartilage by decreasing swelling and the formation of adhesions.