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Benign

Health care; Hospitals

Not cancerous or malignant. A benign tumour doesn’t invade surrounding tissue or spread to other parts of the body. The tumour may grow but it stays in the same place.

Pruritus

Health care; Hospitals

Itching. Pruritus can result from drug reaction, food allergy, kidney or liver disease, cancers, parasites, ageing or dry skin, contact skin reaction, such as poison ivy, and for unknown reasons.

Betadine

Health care; Hospitals

A cool, brown liquid that kills germs when applied to the skin.

A substance produced by the liver’s breakdown of old red blood cells that contain hemoglobin. haemoglobin is the protein in red cells that carries oxygen. Bilirubin is usually removed from the body ...

Biopsy

Health care; Hospitals

The removal of a small piece of body tissue to test and make a diagnosis.

Prone

Health care; Hospitals

Lying on stomach.

Venous

Health care; Hospitals

Referring to veins in the body that carry blood from all of the organs and tissues back to the heart after the tissues have removed the oxygen and nutrients they need. Also called “blue blood.”