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Laparotomy
Laparotomy Surgical incision through the flank or loin or, less precisely, the abdominal wall, as for the purpose of exploring the morphology of the internal reproductive organs.
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Incision
A cut made with a sharp instrument through the skin or other tissue.
Abdominal
Relating to the abdomen, the belly, that part of the body that contains all of the structures between the chest and the pelvis. The abdomen is separated anatomically from the chest by the diaphragm, the powerful muscle spanning the body cavity below the lungs. The abdomen includes a host of organs including the stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, appendix, gallbladder, and bladder. The word "abdomen" has a curious story behind it. It comes from the Latin "abdodere", to hide. The idea was that whatever was eaten was hidden in the abdomen.
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Laparoscope
A thin tube with a tiny video camera attached. Used to look inside the body and see the surface of organs. See also endoscope.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
An operation to remove the gallbladder. The doctor inserts a laparoscope (see above) and other surgical instruments through small holes in the abdomen. The camera allows the doctor to see the gallbladder on a television screen. The doctor removes the gallbladder through the holes.
Laparoscopic lymphadenectomy
The removal of pelvic lymph nodes with a laparoscope.
Laparoscopic surgery
Surgery using small incisions that allow for fine surgical instruments and a miniature camera to be inserted into the body.ÿ Surgeons are then able to inspect internal organs and to carry out Operations with minimal disturbance to the surrounding tissues.
Laparoscopy
A test that uses a laparoscope to look at and take tissue from the inside of the body.
LaPaz Regional Hospital
LaPaz Regional Hospital is a hospital in Parker, Arizona (USA).
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Lymphokines
Soluble substances secreted by lymphocytes, which have a variety of effects on lymphocytes and other cell types.
Labia
In the female sex organs the outside lips (labia majora) and the inside lips (labia minora) that converge to cover the clitoris with the clitoral hood. Singular: labium.
Labioscrotal
Formed and looking like female labia that, instead of being completely separated, are partially fused to resemble a scrotum; or are like a divided scrotum that resembles labia.
Lactation
The secretion of milk from the breasts; the period of suckling the young until weaning.
Lactogenic hormone
The pituitary hormone that stimulates the production of milk from the mammary glands.
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Lekking
A mating ritual, relatively rare among species, in which at the beginning of the mating season males assemble on the mating ground or lek and wait until they are visited by females and selected for mating. 2. A mating ritual, relatively rare among species, in which at the beginning of each mating season males assemble on the same site in the same mating ground or lek and wait to be visited by females and possibly selected for copulation.
Lesbian
Female homosexual, named after the Aegian island, Lesbos, whence came the homosexual woman poet, Sappho, of ancient Greece. There is no corresponding eponym for a homosexual or gay male.
Leydig cells
In the testes, the hormone-producing cells that are packed in like bunches of grapes between the seminiferous tubules in which sperms are produced.; the interstital cells in the testes that produce testosterone; they are packed between the seminiferous tubules in which the sperms grow.
Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH)
From the hypothalamus, a hormone that triggers the release of the pituitary gonadotropins, LH and FSH. LH frees the ovum and changes its graafian follicle into the corpus luteum. LHRH, LRH, LRF (F = factor), and GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone) are synonymous.
Libido
Sexual drive, subjectively experienced and reported. Hypothetically, in psychoanalytic doctrine, it also means the positive life force of Eros as compared with Thanatos, the death force.
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