Week 5 Flashcards
fus/ion
sticking together
stabilization
to make steady or firm
trans/plant/ation
planting across
-clas/is
breaking
-tripsy, trity
indicating the act of crushing
-lysis
indicating loosenign, freeing, division of adhesion
-rrhaphy
suturing
conversion of position
in case the fetus needs to be turned in uterus
obstetric extraction
in the event the mother need assistance in expelling the fetus from the uterus
version
a variety of internal and external manipulations to ease or expedite delivery
application of or delivery by forceps
the use of a tong-like instrument designed to extract the fetus by the head from the birth canal
close reduction
fractures that can be corrected with manipulation without the need for incision to expose the fracture
-tasia, tasis
act of enlarging a passage or hollow organ by stretching