surgery

Reduction

...other name for weight loss or dieting . In surgery , reduction is a medical procedure to restore a fracture to a correct alignment....

Louis Pasteur

...Joseph Lister to develop antiseptic methods in surgery . In 1865 , a disease called pebrine was killing great numbers of silkworms . Pasteur worked several years proving that it was a microbe attacking silkworm eggs which caused the disease, and that eliminating this microbe within silkworm nurseries...

Kidney

... at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston . The surgery was performed by Dr. Joseph E. Murray , who in 1990 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine . Kidney transplants can be cadaveric (from someone who has died) or from a living donor (usually a family member). There are several advantages to a kidney...

Bacterium

...ria, for example, prior to cutting the skin during surgery or swabbing skin with alcohol when piercing the skin with the needle of a syringe. Sterilization of surgical and dental instruments is done to make them sterile or pathogen-free to prevent contamination and infection by bacteria. Sanitizers and...

Edward Jenner

...he Father of Immunization. He studied anatomy and surgery under the guidance of John Hunter , a prominent surgeon in London, then returned to Berkeley to start a practice. Jenner's house in Berkeley, also known as The Chantry, is now the Jenner Museum. One of Jenner's interests was hot air ballooning . ...

Charles Darwin

...r Munro III and his revulsion at the brutality of surgery at the time led him to neglect his medical studies, but in his second year he became active in student societies for naturalists. In the Plinian society he became an avid student of Robert Edmund Grant , learning from Grant's enthusiasm for the theo...

Cancer

...gans are performed under anesthesia and require surgery . Screening Cancer screening is the widespread...r complications from unnecessary treatment such as surgery or radiation. Followup procedures used to diagnose prostate cancer (prostate biopsy ) may cause side...

Bacterium

...ria, for example, prior to cutting the skin during surgery or swabbing skin with alcohol when piercing the skin with the needle of a syringe. Sterilization of surgical and dental instruments is done to make them sterile or pathogen-free to prevent contamination and infection by bacteria. Sanitizers and...

Albinism

...ir vision cannot be corrected completely. Although surgery is possible on the ocular muscles, effectively simulating (to a limited degree) the improvements in the albino's vision that often come with age, the gain is generally thought be out-weighed by the trauma. The lack of pigment in the eye generally le...