Category: S

A thin tube connecting the sweat gland with the surface of the skin. Any tiny tubule conveying sweat from a sudoriferous gland to the skin surface.  

A salty liquid produced by the sweat glands to cool the body as the liquid evaporates from the skin. Sweat is the fluid produced in and secreted from the sweat glands of the skin. Sweat is primarily water, but is a serous fluid containing many of the same constituents as plasma. Most importantly with respect…

A special catheter which can be floated through the right chamber of the heart into the pulmonary artery. The balloon at its tip is then inflated to measure arterial pressure. A flexible catheter inserted into the pulmonary artery of patients in shock; used for hemodynamic monitoring. A soft, flexible catheter that is inserted into the…

To make liquid, food and sometimes air go down from the mouth to the stomach. To cause or enable the passage of something from the mouth through the throat and esophagus into the stomach by muscular action.  

A cotton wool pad, often attached to a small stick, used, e.g., to clean a wound, to apply ointment or to take a specimen. A specimen taken with a swab. A wad of absorbent material, cotton, or gauze wrapped around the end of a thin stick or clamp. Swabs are used to apply medication, remove…

A drug similar to acetylcholine in structure, used as a muscle relaxant during surgery. A drug that relaxes voluntary muscle. It is administered by intravenous injection and is used mainly to produce muscle relaxation during surgery carried out under general anesthesia and to reduce muscular movements during electroconvulsive therapy.  

A part of the body which supports another part. A structure, like a ligament or bone, that provides support.  

Referring to a sustentaculum.  

To keep, to support, to maintain something.  

A ligament which holds a part of the body in position. Fibrous tissue that serves the purpose of holding structures, such as the ovary and uterus, in anatomical position. A ligament that serves to support or suspend an organ in position. For example, the suspensory ligament of the lens is a fibrous structure attached to…