| TERMS USED | DEFINITION |
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| COMPLICATION | A morbid process or event that occurs during the course of a surgery that is not an essential part of that surgery. |
| NATIVE | Pertaining to birth. |
| TISSUE | Collection of similar cells and the intercellular substances surrounding them. |
| INVAGINATION | Vaginal mucosa folded and entrapped on itself, characterized by a fixed and tight area on examination. |
| PROMINENCE | Parts that protrude beyond the surface with no epithelial separation. |
| SEPARATION | Physically disconnected (e.g. vaginal epithelium). |
| EXPOSURE | A condition of displaying, revealing, exhibiting or making accessible e.g. a permanent suture visualized through separated vaginal epithelium. |
| EXTRUSION | Passage gradually out of a body structure or tissue e.g. a loop of suture protruding into the vaginal cavity. |
| COMPROMISE | Bring into danger. |
| PERFORATION | Abnormal opening into a hollow organ or viscus. |
| DEHISCENCE | A bursting open, splitting or gaping along natural or sutured lines. |
| GRANULATION | Fleshy connective tissue projections on the surface of a wound, ulcer or inflamed tissue surface. |
| ULCER | A lesion through the skin or a mucous membrane resulting from loss of tissue, usually with inflammation. |