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There are many tiny germs (known as micro-organisms) living on your skin, in your body and in the environment around you.

The jaw joint, otherwise known as the temporomandibular joint, is located in front of the ear where the skull and lower jaw meet.

This is known as phlebitis and should settle after a few weeks but may last for several months.

In humans, coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe disease.

At the hospital When someone dies in hospital, the closest known relatives or next of kin are informed by the ward staff.

Swimming, showering and using a jacuzzi or sauna while wearing contact lenses are all known significant risk factors for increased contact lens related

A plastic tube (known as a cannula) will be placed into a vein in your hand or arm. This will be used to give you the sedative medication.

Apart from the vaccines described on the previous page, there is no known way to protect against meningitis.

Adult Social Care Helpdesk 01451 426868 or in an emergency out-of-hours, call 01452 614194 Community Wellbeing Service - Community wellbeing service also known

the app at: https://squeezyapp.com/women/about-squeezy-for-women/ A lot of women find it hard to remember to regularly do pelvic floor exercises (also known

These include tuberculous lesions, specimens from patients with viral hepatitis and patients who are known HIV positive).

This procedure is also known as PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention).

Laryngospasm is a known side effect of a particular chemotherapy drug called Oxaliplatin.

This is a type of medication known as a direct-acting oral anticoagulant (or DOAC).

It is also known as a totally implanted central venous access device.

This is more commonly known as the ‘right to be forgotten’.

A telescope (also known as a scope) is passed through your mouth, down your oesophagus, into your stomach and around the first bend of the small intestine

In order to introduce the NovaSure® the cervix will need to be opened up further using the speculum (known as cervical dilatation).

Additional short-acting insulin can be given to correct high blood glucose levels; this is known as a correction dose.

Donor site - if you have had surgery requiring a repair with a skin graft from another part of your body, known as free flap, you will have a separate