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Intraoperative blood salvage
The recovery of blood that has been lost into a body cavity during surgery or due to trauma. This blood can then be reintroduced into the patient's circulation, reducing the need for donor blood transfusion
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- Lice, head See: Head lice
- Code black While there is no formal definition for a 'Code,' doctors often use the term as slang to refer to a patient…
- Heterochromatin Chromosomal material that is darkly staining and tightly coiled throughout the cell cycle and that is, for…
- Introitus In anatomy, an introitus is an entrance, one that goes into a canal or hollow organ. The introitus of the…
- Blood, urinary Medically called hematuria, blood in the urine can be microscopic or gross. Evaluating hematuria requires…
- Genitalia, ambiguous See: Ambiguous genitalia
- Tissue, connective See: Connective tissue
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- Pollen Small, light, dry protein particles from trees, grasses, flowers, and weeds that may be spread by the wind…
- Dacryocystorhinostomy The surgical creation of a passage between the lacrimal sac (tear sac) and the nasal cavity to permit the…