English Collins Dictionary-English synonyms & Thesaurus &nbsp. nurse (nurses plural & 3rd person present) (nursing present participle) (nursed past tense & past participle) 1 n-count; n-title; n-voc A nurse is a person whose job is to care for people who are ill. She had spent 29 years as a nurse..., Patients were dying because of an acute shortage of nurses. 2 verb If you nurse someone, you care for them when they are ill. All the years he was sick my mother had nursed him... V n She rushed home to nurse her daughter back to health.
Mastitis: Inflammation of one or more mammary glands within the breast, usually in a lactating woman. Mastitis can be felt as a hard, sore spot within the breast. Mastitis can be caused by an infection in the breast or by a plugged milk duct.
Mastoiditis is a bacterial infection of the mastoid air cells surrounding the inner and middle ear. The mastoid bone, which is full of these air cells, is part of the temporal bone of the skull. The mastoid air cells are thought to protect the delicate structures of the ear, regulate ear pressure and possibly protect the temporal bone during trauma. When the mastoid cells become infected or inflamed, often as a result of an unresolved middle ear infection (otitis media), mastoiditis can develop.