Medical technology: Difference between revisions

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Sleep aid used to directly produce a state of sleep in a patient in order to aid healing via stimulating the production of delta waves in the brain (DS9: "The Passenger", "Invasive Procedures"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)
- Mistakenly referred to as an alpha wave inducer in "The Passenger", but alpha waves are associated with wakefulness

High-precision version of a laser scalpel for more precise surgeries (TNG: "Ethics"; VOY: "Message in a Bottle"; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: Cathedral)

Known by 22nd century (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
Presumably used to improve nerve conductivity or functionality (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)

Standard laser-based low-precision medical cutting tool (TNG: "The Host"; DS9: "Invasive Procedures", "The Alternate"; VOY: "Dark Frontier", "Imperfection"; TNG Novel: Vendetta)
- Exoscalpel used instead for high precision tools

Known by 22nd century (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)
Presumably hand-wielded cutting implement used for microsurgery (ENT Novel: Kobayashi Maru)

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+==Delta wave inducer==
+* Sleep aid used to directly produce a state of sleep in a patient in order to aid healing via stimulating the production of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_wave delta waves] in the brain (DS9: "The Passenger", "Invasive Procedures"; DS9 Novel: ''Mission Gamma: Cathedral'')
+** ''Mistakenly referred to as an alpha wave inducer in "The Passenger", but alpha waves are associated with wakefulness''
 ==Exoscalpel==
 * High-precision version of a [[laser scalpel]] for more precise surgeries (TNG: "Ethics"; VOY: "Message in a Bottle"; DS9 Novel: ''Mission Gamma: Cathedral'')