| closed skull fracture | Fracture with intact overlying scalp and/or mucous membranes. Synonym: simple skull fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| closed fracture | A fracture in which skin is intact at site of fracture. Synonym: simple fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| basal skull fracture | <orthopaedics> A fracture involving the base of the cranium. This fracture is often difficult to detect clinically. Findings may include raccoon eyes, Battle's sign, haemotympanum and cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhoea. Plain skull X-ray will often not reveal the basal skull fracture, making a CT scan or MRI the most reliable diagnostic investigation. (15 Nov 1997) |
| comminuted skull fracture | A fracture of the skull with fragmentation of bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compound skull fracture | A fracture with laceration of overlying scalp and/or mucous membrane. Synonym: compound skull fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| simple skull fracture | Fracture with intact overlying scalp and/or mucous membranes. Synonym: simple skull fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skull fracture | <orthopaedics> A injury to the cranium with sufficient force to fracture one of the bones with comprise the skull. The temporal bone is the most often fractured. See: head injury. (27 Sep 1997) |
| stellate skull fracture | A skull fracture with multiple linear fractures radiating from the site of impact. (05 Mar 2000) |
| depressed skull fracture | A skull fracture with inward displacement of a part of the calvarium. (27 Sep 1997) |
| diastatic skull fracture | The traumatic separation of cranial bones at a suture line. (27 Sep 1997) |
| open skull fracture | A fracture with laceration of overlying scalp and/or mucous membrane. Synonym: compound skull fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expressed skull fracture | A fracture with outward displacement of a part of the cranium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| linear skull fracture | A skull fracture resembling a line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anaesthesia, closed-circuit | Inhalation anaesthesia where the gases exhaled by the patient are rebreathed as some carbon dioxide is simultaneously removed and anaesthetic gas and oxygen are added so that no anaesthetic escapes into the room. Closed-circuit anaesthesia is used especially with explosive anaesthetics to prevent fires where electrical sparking from instruments is possible. (12 Dec 1998) |
| closed anaesthesia | Inhalation anaesthesia in which there is total rebreathing of all exhaled gases, except carbon dioxide which is absorbed; gas flow into the anaesthetic circuit consists only of oxygen, in amounts equal to the patient's metabolic consumption, plus small amounts of other gases (e.g., nitrous oxide) which undergo continued uptake by and distribution in the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| closed-angle glaucoma | angle-closure glaucoma |