See Also: saline solution(medicine)
saline solution, hypertonic(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Impaction(health)
Impaction(medicine)
impaction(dictionary)
mucus impaction(medicine)
dental impaction(medicine)
Dental impaction(health)
food impaction(medicine)

saline solution, hypertonic (medicine) and Impaction (medicine)


saline solution, hypertonic (medicine)


saline solution, hypertonic
Hypertonic sodium chloride solution. A solution having an osmotic pressure greater than that of physiologic salt solution (0.9 g nacl in 100 ml purified water).


Impaction (medicine)


impaction


1. <surgery> The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each Other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.

2. <medicine> An immovable packing;, a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the foetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of Food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

Origin: L. Impactio a striking: cf. F. Impaction.

Source: Websters Dictionary