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Surgical Instruments
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D013525 |
[Hand-held tools or implements used by health professionals for the performance of surgical tasks.
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Surgical Mesh
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D013526 |
[Any woven or knit material of open texture used in surgery for the repair, reconstruction, or substitution of tissue. The mesh is usually a synthetic fabric made of various polymers. It is occasionally made of metal.
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Surgical Navigation Systems
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D000085022 |
[Hardware and software tools that coordinate the use of imaging data (IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER ASSISTED) to provide measurements for the planning of surgery and guidance of instruments during operating procedures in COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGERY.
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Surgical Oncology
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D000071077 |
[A surgical specialty concerned with management of cancer.
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Surgical Procedures, Operative
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D013514 |
[Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)
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Surgical Sponges
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D015503 |
[Gauze material used to absorb body fluids during surgery. Referred to as GOSSYPIBOMA if accidentally retained in the body following surgery.
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Surgical Staplers
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D013528 |
[Fastening devices composed of steel-tantalum alloys used to close operative wounds, especially of the skin, which minimizes infection by not introducing a foreign body that would connect external and internal regions of the body. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995)
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Surgical Stapling
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D017792 |
[A technique of closing incisions and wounds, or of joining and connecting tissues, in which staples are used as sutures.
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Surgical Stomas
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D054047 |
[Artificial openings created by a surgeon for therapeutic reasons. Most often this refers to openings from the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT through the ABDOMINAL WALL to the outside of the body. It can also refer to the two ends of a surgical anastomosis.
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Surgical Tape
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D053832 |
[A flat, flexible strip of material used to cover or fasten together damaged tissue.
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Surgical Wound
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D000072836 |
[An incision made during a surgical procedure.
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Surgical Wound Dehiscence
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D013529 |
[Pathologic process consisting of a partial or complete disruption of the layers of a surgical wound.
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Surgical Wound Infection
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D013530 |
[Infection occurring at the site of a surgical incision.
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Surgically-Created Structures
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D019738 |
[Organs or parts of organs surgically formed from nearby tissue to function as substitutes for diseased or surgically removed tissue.
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Surgicenters
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D013531 |
[Facilities designed to serve patients who require surgical treatment exceeding the capabilities of usual physician's office yet not of such proportion as to require hospitalization.
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Suriname
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D013532 |
[A republic in the north of South America, bordered on the west by GUYANA (British Guiana) and on the east by FRENCH GUIANA. Its capital is Paramaribo. It was formerly called Netherlands Guiana or Dutch Guiana or Surinam. Suriname was first settled by the English in 1651 but was ceded to the Dutch by treaty in 1667. It became an autonomous territory under the Dutch crown in 1954 and gained independence in 1975. The country was named for the Surinam River but the meaning of that name is uncertain. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p1167 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p526)
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Surrogate Mothers
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D013533 |
[Women who allow themselves to be impregnated with the understanding that the offspring are to be given over to the parents who have commissioned the surrogate.
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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D011795 |
[Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.
, Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.
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Survival
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D013534 |
[Continuance of life or existence especially under adverse conditions; includes methods and philosophy of survival.
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Survival Analysis
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D016019 |
[A class of statistical procedures for estimating the survival function (function of time, starting with a population 100% well at a given time and providing the percentage of the population still well at later times). The survival analysis is then used for making inferences about the effects of treatments, prognostic factors, exposures, and other covariates on the function.
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