August 2011
Anonymous asked: I like your take on Biomedicine :] Do you have any other blogs?
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So I have a lot of new stuff from the...
And it’s way beyond a lot of the generic zoology/natural history stuff I already have. It’s great. Soooo….yeah. Expect lots of it tonight/tomorrow.
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goodlookingmoustaches asked: what causes headache? and what happens in your head when you have it?
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Behind the Terminology: "King's Evil"
One of the terms in my first post on archaic terminology was something called “scrofula”, which is (or was) also called “King’s Evil”. This condition is simply a tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes of the neck*. Technically, it’s called “tuberculous cervical lymphadeniasis”. If you look at the second two words in that name, it tells you a lot...
Aug 24th
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Medical Terminology: Latin and Greek Roots
Now for some of the fun terms! These may be out of alphabetical order, so my apologies there. This is just a short selection of some common and interesting terms; more will come soon. These terms will also be re-organized when I finish the next two posts. —————————————— pachy-: A thickening of the skin -...
Aug 23rd
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Medical Terminology: Latin and Greek Roots -...
The first things you really want to learn are the basic medical root words…knowing these will take you a long way in studying medical (and other scientific!) history, especially if you’ve never studied the subject before. And you probably already know most of these roots, even if you don’t realize it yet! BASIC TERMINOLOGY: -(o)logy/-(o)logist: Study of, specializing in (ex:...
Aug 23rd
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Medical Terminology: Latin and Greek Roots -...
Ok, so I’ve covered some archaic medical terms previously, but there are some Greek and Latin roots that you’ll find much more often in medical history than in modern medicine. Understanding Medicine Knowing the definitions of the root words/suffixes/prefixes of a term you see being used in a medical report can give you a much more clear idea of exactly what it’s referring to,...
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