| GRPS | glucose-Ringer-phosphate solution |
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| HBSS | Hank's balanced salt solution |
| HS | Haber syndrome; half strength; hamstring; hand surgery; Hartmann solution; head sling; healthy subje... |
| IBS | imidazole buffered saline; immunoblastic sarcoma; irritable bowel syndrome; isobaric solution |
| KHS | King's Honorary Surgeon; kinky hair syndrome; Krebs-Henseleit solution |
| Hummelsheim's operation | Transplantation of a normal ocular rectus muscle, to substitute for a paralysed muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Hunter's operation | Ligation of the artery proximal and distal to an aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| seton operation | An operation for advanced glaucoma; passage of a tube or seton into the anterior chamber to act as a wick. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shirodkar operation | A cerclage procedure done by purse-string suturing of an incompetent cervical os with a nonabsorbent suture material. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sistrunk operation | Excision of the thyroglossal cyst and duct including the midportion of the hyoid bone through, or near, which the duct traverses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Smith-Boyce operation | An incision into the posterolateral renal parenchyma, gaining access to the calyceal system through an avascular plane between anterior and posterior branches of the renal artery; used for removal of calyceal and branched renal calculi, with maximum exposure yet minimal bleeding or parenchymal damage. Synonym: Smith-Boyce operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Smith-Indian operation | A surgical technique for removal of cataract within the capsule. Synonym: Smith's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Smith-Robinson operation | Interbody spinal fusion through an anterior cervical approach. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Smith's operation | A surgical technique for removal of cataract within the capsule. Synonym: Smith's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Soave operation | Endorectal pull-through for treatment of congenital megacolon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Spinelli operation | An operation splitting the anterior wall of the prolapsed uterus and reversing the organ preliminary to reduction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Naffziger operation | Orbital decompression for severe malignant exophthalmos by removal of the lateral and superior orbital walls. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stapes mobilization operation | Now infrequently used operation involving fracture of tissue immobilizing the stapes to restore hearing; especially used in patients with otosclerosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stoffel's operation | Division of certain motor nerves for the relief of spastic paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stookey-Scarff operation | An operation to establish an opening from the third ventricle to the prechiasmal and interpeduncular cisterns (Stookey-Scarff operation) or from the third ventricle to the interpeduncular cistern (Dandy operation). (05 Mar 2000) |