Medical/Surgical Word Scramble
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| Type of procedure | Term | Defintion | Note |
| Medical | ADA diet | Physician-prescribed diet for patients with diabetes that follows guidelines established by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). | • Carbohydrate and fat intake are limited. • The physician specifies the upper limit for total daily caloric intake |
| Surgical | Adrenalectomy | Procedure to remove the adrenal gland because of an adenoma or cancerous tumor. | |
| Surgical | Fine-needle biopsy | Procedure that uses a fine needle to take a small sample of tissue from a thyroid nodule to determine whether the nodule is benign or cancerous. | |
| Surgical | Parathyroidectomy | Procedure to remove one or more of the parathyroid glands to treat hyperparathyroidism | may also occur accidentally during thyroid surgery. |
| Surgical | Thymectomy | Procedure to remove the thymus in patients with myasthenia gravis. | |
| Surgical | Thyroidectomy | Procedure to remove all or part of the thyroid gland. | • Subtotal thyroidectomy involves removal of just one part. • Thyroid lobectomy involves removal of only one lobe. |
| Surgical | Transsphenoidal hypophysectomy | Procedure to remove an adenoma from the pituitary gland by way of an incision in the sphenoid sinus. |
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