Category: G

Loss of feeling and loss of sensation throughout the body, after being given an anaesthetic. A substance given tomake someone lose consciousness so that a major surgical operation can be carried out. General anesthesia is employed to induce a state of unconsciousness and loss of sensation, effectively blocking the perception of pain across the entire…

A sudden and complete loss of memory, to the extent that a person does not even remember who he or she is.  

The alteration of a person’s sex through surgical and drug treatment.  

Surgery to change someone’s sex.  

Either of the two muscles arising from the ischium. Either of two muscles inserted in the obturator internus tendon.  

Referring to gelatin or something with a texture like jelly.  

A dressing of thin light material.  

A thin light material used to make dressings. A thin, loosely woven surgical dressing usually made of cotton. Gauze has been used for wound care for centuries because it is absorbent yet permits moisture to escape. Gauze dressings are available in many forms and sizes and are used as a bandage and in dressings and…

An enzyme disease where fatty substances accumulate in the lymph glands, spleen and liver, causing anaemia, a swollen spleen and darkening of the skin. The disease can be fatal in children. [Described 1882. After Philippe Charles Ernest Gaucher (1854-1918), French physician and dermatologist.] A genetic disease due to a mutation in the gene for the…

A swelling that is filled with pus.