Medical Terms – Surgery Student

Abdominal stiffness, often worsens with palpation

Stands for the Latin phrase nil per os meaning “nothing by mouth”

Partial or total separation of previously approximated wound edges; occurs due to failure of proper wound healing

Excessive salivation

Time period after a meal has been consumed

Thickening and hardening of the soft tissues of the body

Passage of blood through the anus; usually with stool or in stool

Vomiting blood

Involuntary tensing of the abdominal wall muscles in response to palpation

Tense area of skin with boggy feeling upon palpation

Mission