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Doctors may use unfamiliar words that you don’t understand. Here are some of the most common ones explained (alphabetically).

Hair loss

A reduced number of red blood cells

Drugs that put a person to sleep (general anaesthetic) or that numb a part of the body (local anaesthetic) while they have an operation or procedure

Describes a tumour or growth that is not cancerous but may still be capable of causing problems

A small sample of tissue taken from the body to make a diagnosis

A blood test to check the number of different cells in the blood (sometimes called a full blood count or FBC)

The spongy material in the centre of the large bones of the body, which makes blood cells

To do with the heart