I had a pt who had an exploratory laparotomy who was determined to have a sm bowel obstruction due to an adhesion. What is it called when they cut out or remove the adhesion?

Anyone? Anyone?

Thanks,

NurseFirst

Adhesiolysis

Adhesiolysis

Another medical word to add to my expanding medical vocabulary. And here I thought I'd mastered so much after taking med term classes. Hah!

My other recent favorite word was "pagophagia".

What is pagophagia? Pica, where ice chips is the object of consumption.

NurseFirst

Pica is the craving ingestion of non-food items (dirt, baby powder, etc.)

Pica is the craving ingestion of non-food items (dirt, baby powder, etc.)

But my research turned up that, in fact, it means consumption/craving of unusual and non-nutritive substances. What I turned up, I think it was on emedicine, definitely put pagophagia in as a type of pica. It's a not uncommon sx of iron deficiency. Go figure!

http://www.fpnotebook.com/HEM215.htm

NurseFirst

The techincally appropriate name for what you describe-

Exploratory Laparotomy, Lysis of Adhesions

Paula

Ex. lap. with lysis of adhesions.....