Bowel diversion surgery allows stool to safely leave the body when (because of disease or injury) the large intestine is removed or needs time to heal. Bowel is a general term for any part of the small or large intestine.
A topical medication is a medication that is applied to a particular place on or in the body, as opposed to systemically.
A mixture formed when one substance dissolves in another is called a solution. One example is salt water. In a solution, the component substances cannot be distin-guished from each other and they remain evenly distrib-uted throughout; that is, the mixture is homogeneous (ho-mo-JE-ne-us). The dissolving substance, which in the body is water, is the solvent. The substance dis- solved, salt in the case of salt water, is the solute . An aqueous (A-kwe-us) solution is one in which water is the solvent. Aqueous solutions of glucose, salts, or both of these together are used for intravenous fluid treat- ments.