A morcellator is a surgical instrument used for division and removal of large masses of tissues during laparoscopic surgery. In laparoscopic hysterectomy the uterus is minced up, or morcellated, into smaller pieces inside the woman's belly cavity in order to extract from the abdomen.
What disease does Steven Hawking suffer from? He has a muscular dystrophy cognate to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the latter being also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Edit
Physicist Stephen Hawking, who has lived with the disease for nearly 50 years now, represents an exceptionally rare case. Parkinsonâs disease. What it is: Parkinsonâs is caused by the malfunction and death of neurons in an area of the brain called the basal ganglia and, within that, the âsubstantia nigra,â Sohur said.