Category: M

Acronym for microwave amplification by stimulation emission of radiation. It is a device that produces a small, non-diverging radiation beam.  

Development of male secondary sexual characteristics.  

A roller bandage of rubber used for exerting pressure on an extremity, as for varicose veins and for exsanguination, as with an Esmarch bandage.  

The mistaken diagnosis by a medical professional that a patient has a delusional disorder.  

A surgical procedure used to treat urinary stress incontinence in women. The incontinence is caused by a weakness in the support of the bladder neck and proximal urethra. Sutures are placed periurethrally in the vaginal wall and anchored to the perichondrium of the pubic symphysis, offering a better cystourethral angle and firm support.  

An allergic cause of nasopharyngitis, occurring in those who have eaten incompletely cooked animal organs, e.g., goat lung or liver, infested with nymphs of the parasite Linguatula serrata.  

A monofilament, biologically inert mesh used in surgical procedures to help cover or strengthen areas, as in hernia repair.  

An asymptomatic relapse of an illness, that is, one that is only evident on laboratory testing.  

A carcinoma that grows at the site of a chronic wound (e.g., a nonhealing scar or burn). The tumor is most often a squamous cell carcinoma and often metastasizes. An ulcer that arises from the cancerous transformation of a persistent or dormant ulcer or scar, particularly one that originated from an old burn or radiation…

Plastic surgery of a border, as of an eyelid.