Category: N

A suture made from a material that is not absorbed by the body, such as silk, polymers, cotton, or wire. These sutures ultimately are removed or are placed in tissue deep to the skin where their presence will have minimal long-term consequences.  

A suture between the nasal bone and superior maxilla.  

The suction of gas, fluid, and solid material from the gastrointestinal tract by use of a tube extending from the suction device to the stomach or intestines via the nasal passage.  

An electrodiagnostic test used to determine whether the conduction of impulses along specific nerves is normal or pathologically slowed. In the test an electrical shock is given to a nerve that controls a particular muscle. The time required for the muscle to contract and the distance the electrical stimulus has to travel along the nerve…

Strabismus of an eye that varies in degree with the change in direction in which the eye moves.  

A painful and usually injurious stimulus.  

A basic stain that colors cell nuclei, but does not stain structures in the cytoplasm.  

A dye added to a tissue specimen that binds to tissue indiscriminately, making it more difficult to distinguish one part from the next.    

A combination of an acid and a basic stain.  

Sputum laden with round, coin-shaped solids.