| SURG, Surg | surgery, surgical, or surgeon |
|---|---|
| SWI | sterile water for injection; stroke work index; surgical wound infection |
| SWR | serum Wassermann reaction; surgical wound infection rate |
| TSA | technical surgical assistance; toluene sulfonic acid; total shoulder arthroplasty; total solute abso... |
| VSC | voluntary surgical contraception |
| primordial cyst | A cyst which develops in place of a tooth through cystic degeneration of the enamel organ prior to formation of calcified odontogenic tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sanguineous cyst | A cyst containing blood or resulting from the encapsulation of a haematoma. Synonym: blood cyst, haematocele, haematocyst, sanguineous cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| proliferating tricholemmal cyst | A solitary tumour of the scalp in elderly women that may ulcerate; microscopically resembles squamous cell carcinoma composed of glycogen-rich clear cells, but is benign. Synonym: proliferating tricholemmal cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| proliferation cyst | A mother cyst containing daughter cyst's; a cyst with tumourous formation at one portion of the sac. (05 Mar 2000) |
| protozoan cyst | Infectious form of many protozoan parasites such as Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia, Balantidium coli, etc., usually passed in the faeces and provided with a highly condensed cytoplasm and resistant cell wall. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterotrophic oral gastrointestinal cyst | A cyst of the oral cavity lined by gastric or intestinal mucosa from misplaced embryonic rests. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomucinous cyst | A cyst containing a gelatinous fluid, formerly thought to differ significantly from mucin, occurring especially in the ovary. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sebaceous cyst | A closed sac (sebaceous gland) within the tissue containing oily or fatty semi-solid material. These cysts are found most commonly on the genitalia, vulva or labia. Features include a nontender, small lump in the skin. Sebaceous cysts which turn red or tender may require treatment with oral antibiotics. Warm wet compresses may help the cyst expel some of its contents. Surgical excision of the cyst may be necessary to prevent recurrence. (27 Sep 1997) |
| secretory cyst | A cyst resulting from some obstruction to the excretory duct of a gland. Synonym: distention cyst, secretory cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |
| seminal vesical cyst | A cyst, usually congenital, of the seminal vesicle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sequestration cyst | A collection of cancerous cells which form cysts that contain one or more of the three primary embryonic germ layers: skin, hair or teeth. (27 Sep 1997) |
| serous cyst | A cyst containing clear serous fluid, such as a hygroma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hydatid cyst | A cyst formed in the liver, or, less frequently, elsewhere, by the larval stage of Echinococcus, chiefly in ruminants; two morphological forms caused by Echinococcus granulosus are found in humans: the unilocular hydatid cyst and the osseous hydatid cyst; a third form in humans is the alveolar hydatid cyst, caused by Echinococcus multilocularis. Synonym: echinococcus cyst, hydatid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hydatid cyst of morgagni | <radiology> Paraovarian cyst near fimbria or broad ligament, serous fluid, no clinical significance, wolffian duct remnant (probably) (12 Dec 1998) |
| simple bone cyst | <radiology> Unicameral or solitary bone cyst, lytic, unilocular, central, meta-diaphyseal, humerus (most common site), age 0 - 10 yrs Differential diagnosis: bubbly bone lesions (12 Dec 1998) |