Glossary
Pediatric Surgeon Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential pediatric surgeon terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key pediatric surgeon vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in pediatric surgeon training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Anesthesia team
- Specialists sedating children.
- Appendectomy
- Removing the appendix.
- Child life specialist
- Helps children cope in hospitals.
- Congenital defect
- A condition present at birth.
- Family-centered care
- Involving families in care.
- Fellowship
- Advanced training.
- Gastroschisis
- Intestines outside the body at birth.
- Inguinal hernia
- A groin hernia.
- Intussusception
- Bowel folding into itself.
- Laparoscopy
- Minimally invasive surgery.
- NICU
- Neonatal intensive care unit.
- Pediatric trauma
- Injuries in children.
- Post-op
- After surgery.
- Pyloric stenosis
- Narrowing that blocks feeding in infants.
- Wilms tumor
- A childhood kidney cancer.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Pediatric Surgeon practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Pediatric Surgeon training.
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