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.
6. The mastoid process is an inferior extension of the petrous temporal bone of the skull and provides a structural function as an anchor point for the large muscles of the neck.It contains multiple air cells that develop from a single main cavity (the antrum), after the age of about 2.he infective process causes inflammation of the mastoid and surrounding tissues and may lead to bony destruction. 1  Classic, or acute, mastoiditis is a rare complication of acute otitis media (AOM).