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A scraping, usually of the interior of a cavity or tract, for removal of new growth or other abnormal tissue, or to obtain material for tissue diagno…

Board, room, and other personal assistance services generally provided on a long term basis. It excludes regular medical care.

Surgical removal of the full or partial removal of the URINARY BLADDER.

Surgical creation of an opening (stoma) in the URINARY BLADDER for drainage.

Surgical incision or puncture into a URINARY BLADDER. Cystotomy may be used to remove URINARY CALCULI, or to perform tissue repair and reconstruction.

Separation of one or more kinds of cells from whole blood with the return of other blood cell constituents to the patient or donor. This is accomplis…

Operative procedures carried out to reduce a mass of tissue, for example, to reduce the total amount of tissue composing a tumor.

Surgical fistulization of the LACRIMAL SAC for external drainage of an obstructed nasolacrimal duct.

The use of dancing for therapeutic purposes.

Institutional health care of patients during the day. The patients return home at night.

The removal of foreign material and devitalized or contaminated tissue from or adjacent to a traumatic or infected lesion until surrounding healthy t…

Decompression external to the body, most often the slow lessening of external pressure on the whole body (especially in caisson workers, deep sea div…

A surgical operation for the relief of pressure in a body compartment or on a body part. (From Dorland, 28th ed)

Excision of part of the skull. This procedure is used to treat elevated intracranial pressure that is unresponsive to conventional treatment.

Therapy for MOVEMENT DISORDERS, especially PARKINSON DISEASE, that applies electricity via stereotactic implantation of ELECTRODES in specific areas …

The practice of caring for individuals in the community, rather than in an institutional environment with resultant effects on the individual, the in…

Dosage forms of a drug that act over a period of time by controlled-release processes or technology.

Delivery of the FETUS and PLACENTA under the care of an obstetrician or a health worker. Obstetric deliveries may involve physical, psychological, me…

Tree-like, highly branched, polymeric compounds. They grow three-dimensionally by the addition of shells of branched molecules to a central core. The…

The resection or removal of the nerve to an organ or part.

The grafting or inserting of a prosthetic device of alloplastic material into the oral tissue beneath the mucosal or periosteal layer or within the b…

Insertion of an implant into the bone of the mandible or maxilla. The implant has an exposed head which protrudes through the mucosa and is a prostho…

Insertion of a tapered rod through the root canal into the periapical osseous structure to lengthen the existing root and provide individual tooth st…

The grafting or inserting of an appliance designed to fit over the surface of the mandible or the maxilla, beneath the specialized connective tissue …

Directions written to discontinue use of PRESCRIPTION DRUGS in order to reduce unnecessary and/or excessive medications (see POLYPHARMACY), DRUG SIDE…

The mechanical planing of the SKIN with sand paper, emery paper, or wire brushes, to promote reepithelialization and smoothing of skin disfigured by …

Operative procedures performed on the SKIN.

A surgical procedure or KERATOPLASTY involving selective stripping and replacement of diseased host DESCEMET MEMBRANE and CORNEAL ENDOTHELIUM with a …

Immunosuppression by the administration of increasing doses of antigen. Though the exact mechanism is not clear, the therapy results in an increase i…

Removal of electronic wire lead(s) of IMPLANTED ELECTRODES, e.g., implanted ARTIFICIAL PACEMAKER or IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR.