Version June 2024
| Terms used | Definition |
| Prosthesis | A fabricated substitute to assist a damaged body part or to augment or stabilize a hypoplastic structure |
| Mesh | A (prosthetic) network fabric or structure |
| Implant | A surgically inserted or embedded prosthesis |
| Tape (sling) | A flat strip of synthetic material |
| Graft | Any tissue or organ for transplantation; refers to biological materials inserted |
| Autologous grafts | From the woman's own tissues (eg, dura mater, rectus sheath, or fascia lata) |
| Allografts | From postmortem tissue banks |
| Xenografts | From other species (eg, modified porcine dermis, porcine small intestine, bovine pericardium) |
| Complication | A morbid process or event that occurs during the course of a surgery that is not an essential part of that surgery |
| Contraction | Shrinkage or reduction in size |
| Prominence | Parts that protrude beyond the surface (eg, due to wrinkling or folding with no epithelial separation) |
| Separation | Physically disconnected (eg, vaginal epithelium) |
| Exposure | A condition of displaying, revealing, exhibiting, or making accessible (eg, vaginal mesh visualized through separated vaginal epithelium) |
| Extrusion | Passage gradually out of a body structure or tissue |
| Compromise | Bring into danger |
| Perforation | Abnormal opening in a hollow organ or viscus |
| Dehiscence | A bursting open or gaping along natural or sutured line |
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