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Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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Medical
Undergraduate 1
08/18/2012

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Term
AESTHETIC SURGERY
Definition
SURGERY THAT IS PERFORMED TO IMPROVE APPEARANCE BUT NOT FUNCTION; ALSO CALLED COSMETIC SURGERY
Term
ALLOGRAFT
Definition
A TISSUE GRAFT IN WHICH THE DONOR AND RECIPIENT ARE OF THE SAME SPECIES
Term
AUGMENT
Definition
TO ENLARGE A STUCTURE
Term
AUTOGRAFT
Definition
THE SURGICAL TRANSPLANTATION OF TISSUE FROM ONE PART OF THE BODY TO ANOTHER IN THE SAME INDIVIDUAL.
Term
BILOGICAL GRAFT
Definition
A GRAFT DERIVED FROM LIVE TISSUE, WHETHER HUMAN OR ANIMAL.
Term
BIOSYNTHETIC
Definition
A TYPE OF GRAFT OR IMPLANT MATERIAL MADE OF SYNTHETIC ABSORBABLE MATERIAL.
Term

BURN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

(ICU)

Definition
A CRITICAL CARE UNIT FOR SEVERELY BURNED PATIENTS.
Term
COMPOSITE GRAFT
Definition
A BILOGICAL GRAFT COMPOSED OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF TISSUES SUCH AS SKIN AND MUSCLE.
Term
DEBRIDEMENT
Definition
THE SURGICAL REMOVAL OF DEAD SKIN, DEBRIS, AND INFECTIOUS MATERIAL FROM A WOUND.
Term
DERMATOME
Definition
A MEDICAL DEVICE USED FOR REMOVING SINGLE THICKNESS SKIN GRAFTS
Term
DESICCATION
Definition
DRYING OR DEHYDRATION OF TISSUE.
Term
ESCHAR
Definition
TISSUE THAT HAS BEEN BURNED (SECON-AND THIRD-DEGREE BURNS) BUT REMAINS ADHERENT TO THE WOUND.  IS IS NONELASTIC AND MAY CONSTRICT UNDERLYING STRUCTURES, IMPAIRING VITAL FUNCTIONS.
Term
ESCHARDOTOMY
Definition
EXCISION OF ESCHAR TO RELEASE STRICTURE IN SURROUNDING TISSUES.
Term
FASCIOTOMY
Definition
MULTIPLE LONGITUDINAL INCISIONS MADE IN THE FASCIA TO RELEASE SEVERE SWELLING OR STRICTURE WHICH CAN RESULT IN NECROSIS.
Term

FULL-THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT

(FTSG)

Definition
A SKIN GRAFT COMPOSED OF THE EPIDERMIS AND DERMIS.
Term
IMPLANT
Definition
A SYNTHETIC, NATURAL, OR BIOSYNTHETIC SUBSTANCE USED TO FILL IN OR REPLACE AN ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE.
Term
KELOID
Definition
A HYPERTROPHIC SCAR OCCURING IN DARK-SKINNED INDIVIDUALS.  THE SCAR MAY BECOME BULBOUS AND USUALLY DOES NOT REDUCE OVER TIME.
Term
PHOTODAMAGE
Definition
DAMAGE TO THE SKIN CAUSED BY ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT
Term
PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
Definition
SURGERY PERFORMED TO RESTORE FORM AND FUNCTION THAT HAVE BEEN LOST BECAUSE OF TRAUMA, RADICAL SURGERY, OR CONGENITAL ANOMALY.
Term
PORCINE
Definition
DERIVED FROM PIG TISSUE
Term
PTOSIS
Definition
DROOPING OR SAGGING OF ANY ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE.
Term

SPLIT-THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT

(OR PARTIAL-THICKNESS)

(PTSG)

 

Definition
A SKIN GRAFT THAT CONSISTS OF THE EPIDERMIS AND A PORTION OF THE PAPILLARY DERMIS.
Term
SYNTHETIC GRAFT
Definition
A GRAFT DERIVED FROM MATERIAL COMPATIBLE WITH BODY TISSUE.  THIS GRAFT MAY BE SOFT, SEMISOLID, OR LIQUID.
Term
UNDERMINE
Definition
A SURGICAL TECHNIQUE IN WHICH A PLANE OF TISSUE IS CREATED OR AN EXISTING TISSUE PLANE IS LIFTED, SUCH AS SKIN FROM THE FASCIA.
Term
XENOGRAFT
Definition
A GRAFT MADE UP OF TISSUE TAKEN FROM ONE SPECIES AND GRAFTED TO ANOTHER SPECIES (E.G., PORCINE GRAFT IMPLANTED IN HUMAN TISSUE).
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