Table of Contents
- 1 What does Myorrhaphy mean in medical terms?
- 2 What is Myorrhaphy used for?
- 3 What is the root word of Myorrhaphy?
- 4 What does epiphysis mean in medical terms?
- 5 When the toes are pointed down to the ground the movement is called?
- 6 What is an Odynometer?
- 7 What does the medical term myorrhaphy mean?
- 8 Is the Miller-Keane Encyclopedia a medical dictionary?
What does Myorrhaphy mean in medical terms?
Suture of a muscle
[ mī-ôr′ə-fē ] n. Suture of a muscle.
What is Myorrhaphy used for?
Myorrhaphy is a procedure in which the muscle tissue or muscle wound is sutured back together. Myo is the prefix which means muscle, while rrhaphy is the Greek word which means surgical suture.
What does Myorrhexis mean?
Tearing of a muscle
[ mī′ə-rĕk′sĭs ] n. Tearing of a muscle.
What is the root word of Myorrhaphy?
myorrhaphy. Prefix: Prefix Definition: 1st Root Word: my/o. 1st Root Definition: muscle.
What does epiphysis mean in medical terms?
Epiphysis, expanded end of the long bones in animals, which ossifies separately from the bone shaft but becomes fixed to the shaft when full growth is attained. It is connected to the bone shaft by the epiphyseal cartilage, or growth plate, which aids in the growth of bone length and is eventually replaced by bone.
What is Myocele?
(my-oh-seel) protrusion of a muscle through a rupture in its sheath. From: myocele in A Dictionary of Nursing »
When the toes are pointed down to the ground the movement is called?
When the toes are pointed down to the ground, the movement is called. plantar flexion.
What is an Odynometer?
[o″din-om´ĕ-ter] an instrument for measuring pain.
What does ather o mean?
Combining form meaning gruellike, soft, pasty materials; atheroma, atheromatous.
What does the medical term myorrhaphy mean?
For example, the medical term Myorrhaphy means to suture together muscle. What is myorrhaphy? Myorrhaphy means suture of a muscle, or suturing a muscle together.
Is the Miller-Keane Encyclopedia a medical dictionary?
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. Suture of a muscle.
Can a transvaginal levator myorrhaphy be performed?
Despite low morbidity, levator myorrhaphy is not a common procedure. The aim of the video is to provide anatomic views and surgical steps necessary to achieve a successful transvaginal levator myorrhaphy for vaginal vault prolapse repair.