#surgery

Mortality and Morbidity conference — the meeting where the team dissects what went wrong.

General surgeons

Eyeball test for anaesthetic fitness — could you picture this patient browsing Woolworth's?

Surgeon's pejorative for an internist.

A surgeon

Surgical-team nickname for the anaesthetist.

See pothole sign; bumps that provoke peritoneal pain

A gruelling, technically horrendous operation

Below-knee amputation.

Shorthand for appendicitis, the appendix, or whipping it out.

Mature content — open to view.

A belly that has never had surgery

A surgeon who operates aggressively and off the guidelines.

Open the patient, find it inoperable, close straight back up

Coronary artery bypass graft; open-heart bypass surgery.

Varicose vein surgery.

A surgeon.