Surgery, with Special Reference to PodiatryStern, Maximilian
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Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry
Stern, Maximilian
Foot -- Surgery; Surgery
+tendon.+ A white, glistening fibrous tissue, affording attachment of
muscles to bone.
+tenosynovitis.+ Inflammation of a tendon and its sheath.
+tenotomy.+ The surgical division of a tendon.
+terminal.+ Relating to the end, extremity or summit of any body.
+tetanus.+ Lock jaw. A very fatal disease due to the introduction of the
bacillus tetanus into the tissues.
+therapy.+ Treatment, as hydrotherapy, treatment of diseases by means of
water.
+therapeutics.+ The branch of medical science concerned with the
application of remedies for the alleviation of pain and the treatment
of disease.
+thermal.+ Pertaining to heat.
+thoracentesis.+ Tapping the thorax to release fluid from it.
+thrombin.+ The fibrin ferment.
+thrombosis.+ The formation of a thrombus.
+thrombus.+ A blood clot in a vessel producing an obstruction in the
flow of the blood in the same.
+thymol.+ A phenol found in some volatile oils. Used as a deodorizer and
as an antiseptic.
+tibia.+ The shin-bone.
+tincture.+ The pharmacy name of an alcoholic solution or extract of a
nonvolatile vegetable substance.
+tissue.+ A collection of cells or derivatives of cells forming a
definite structure.
+toma, or oma.+ Tumor in hematoma, a bloody tumor.
+tourniquet.+ An instrument or apparatus for arresting the flow of blood
from a vessel in a limb by pressure.
+toxalbumins.+ Poisonous soluble albuminoids producing specific disease.
+toxemia.+ A poisoned state of the blood due to the absorption of
poisons not of parasitic origin.
+toxicity.+ A state of being poisonous.
+toxicology.+ The science of poisons and their antidotes.
+toxins.+ Amorphous, nitrogenous poisons, formed by bacteria in both
living tissues and dead substances.
+trabecula.+ Any one of the fibrous bands extending from the capsule
into the interior of an organ.
+tracheotomy.+ The operation of opening into the trachea.
+traction.+ Drawing; pulling.
+tragopodia.+ Knock-knee.
+transfusion.+ The transfer of blood from one person to another.
+transplant.+ To transfer from one part to another as in plastic
operations.
+trauma.+ A wound or injury.
+traumatic.+ Relating to or caused by a wound.
+trinitrin.+ Nitroglycerin.
+triturate.+ To reduce to fine powder; a finely divided powder.
+tropacocaine.+ An alkaloid from Java coca leaves, used as a local
anesthetic.
+trophe (nourishment).+ Hypertrophy, overgrowth; atrophy, lack of
nourishment.
+trophic.+ Relating to or dependent upon nutrition.
+trypsin.+ A proteolytic ferment of pancreatic fluid.
+tubercle.+ A circumscribed elevation on the skin, mucous membrane or
surface of an organ; the lesion of tuberculosis.
+tuberosity.+ A small rounded elevation on a bony surface.
+tumor.+ A swelling or tumefaction.
+tylosis.+ Formation of a callosity.
+typhoid fever.+ An acute infectious disease caused by the bacillus
typhosus.
+U+
+ulcer (ulcus).+ A lesion of a cutaneous or mucous surface usually
attended by suppuration.
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