Common Medical Terms
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1. Biopsy: A biopsy is a procedure to remove a piece of tissue or a sample of cells from
your body in order to examine, it analyzed in a laboratory. It is a
medical procedure that involves taking a small sample of tissue so that it can
be examined in a laboratory. This test is done to find abnormalities in the body are
caused by cancer or by other conditions.
2. Balloon Angioplasty: It is a procedure
to open clogged heart arteries. In this procedure a surgeon inserts and
inflates a tiny balloon into the blocked artery. A
specially designed catheter with a tiny balloon is carefully guided
through the artery to the blockage, then inflated balloon and flattening the plaque,
It widens the blocked artery then expands a small wire mesh tube to keep
the artery open and improved the blood flow to the heart.
3. Balloon Dilation: A surgical procedure to open a narrowed
vessel or tube, such as the urethra, esophagus, artery, and guided to the inside of the heart. In this procedure, a small deflated balloon is inserted into the area and
inflated to widen it.
4. Bacteraemia/Bacteremia- Presence
of bacteria in the blood and septicemia is the presence and multiplication of
bacteria in the blood.
5. Bacteriuria- Bacteriuria is the presence of bacteria in the urine, accompanied by symptoms is UTI. Asymptomatic bacteriuria is the presence of bacteria in the
properly collected urine specimen of a patient that has no signs or symptoms of
a urinary tract infection (UTI). Diagnosis is done by urinalysis (clinical
urine tests) or urine culture test.
UTI is usually caused by a type of bacteria,
Escherichia coli (E. coli), commonly found in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
6. Benign - Benign refers to tumour that growth that is non-cancerous.
It does not invade nearby tissue means that it does not spread (metastasize) to
other parts of the body. It is a harmless, mild, and benign neoplasm. (contrast
malignant).
7. Biopsy- A biopsy is a process of removing
tissue (sample of tissue) taken from the body in order to
examine or diagnose the area of tissue to determine the presence of a disease.
8. Blast cell- “blast" refers to immature cells, known precursor cells.
An immature blood cell, it a usually large blood cell precursor that is in the earliest stage of development of blood-forming cells.
For example, in acute leukaemia disease
condition (develop immature form blood cells, rather than mature ones).
9. Blastoma – blastoma is a type of cancer caused by malignancies in
precursor cells (blasts), more common in children.
For example- a nephroblastoma is found in the kidney and a
retinoblastoma is found in the eye (retina)
10. Bronchiectasis- A condition in which bronchi or
bronchial tubes are permanently abnormal dilated, damaged and thickened occur,
usually due to chronic infection.
This condition making hard to
clear mucus, allowing mucus to build up and breeds bacteria, causing frequent
infections.
11. Bulla- a skin blister, a fluid-filled sac, the thin-walled cavity filled with liquid or air.
For example- bulla of skin, lung
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