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  • Gastroscopy
    Updated: Nov 09, 2009 - 17:21

    Gastroscopy is when your doctor looks inside your stomach using a camera and a light on the end of a thin tube (about as wide as your little finger). This is called a gastroscope or an endoscope. ‘Gastro’ means stomach and ‘scopy’ means seeing, so gastroscopy just means ‘seeing the stomach’.

  • General anaesthetic
    Updated: Dec 21, 2009 - 14:55

    A general anaesthetic is a special mixture of drugs that you are given to make sure you won't feel anything when you have an operation. ‘Anaes’ means without and ‘thesia’ means feeling, so an anaesthetic stops you from feeling EVERYTHING, not just pain. The ‘general’ part just means that you will...

  • Grommet removal
    Updated: Jan 12, 2010 - 12:21

    A grommet removal is when a doctor takes out tiny plastic tubes called grommets from your eardrums. Grommets are put into your eardrums to cure glue ear in a procedure called myringotomy.

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