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This post gives a list of important Endocrinology related medical words. 1.  Chelating agents - Multidentate ligand 2.  Thrombolytic - related to treat dissolving dangerous clots in blood vessels 3.  Streptokinase - used to dissolve blood clots formed in the blood vessels 4.  Urokinase - plasminogen activator 5.  Sodium oxalate - a sodium salt 6.  Sodium citrate - a sodium salt 7.  Ammonium citrate - citric acid salt 8.  Hemarthrosis - bleeding into joint spaces 9.  Ecchymosis - discoloration of the skin from bruising 10.  Contraindication - a treatment or drug should not be used for patient for a particular reason 11.  Hemorrhoid - discomfort because of swollen and inflamed veins in the rectum and anus 12.  Thyroid gland - Large ductless gland in the neck 13.  Endocrine - related to eight ductless glands in the body 14.  Histology - study of tissues 15.  Secretion - production of any discharge from a gland, cell, or an

This article gives meanings of some important, often using medical terminologies used in anatomy and physiology of human body.  We will see those one by one now. 1.  Tremor - Shivering or shaking of any part of the body. 2.  Stature - Height or growth. 3.  Motility - Movement. 4.  Exophthalmus - Protrusion of eyeball. 5.  Goitre - Enlargement of thyroid gland. 6.  Edema - Collection of fluid. 7.  Tachycardia - Increased heart rate. 8.   Bradycardia - Decreased heart rate. 9.  Insomnia - Reduced sleep. 10.  Hoarseness - Husky voice. 11.  Menorrhagia - Increased menstrual flow. 12.  Amenorrhea - Decreased menstrual flow. 13.  Hypothyroidism - Decreased secretion of thyroid hormones. 14.  Hyperthyroidism - Increased secretion of thyroid hormones. 15.  Adenoma - Tumor. 16.  Tumor - Swelling. 17.  Cretinism - Hypothyroidism in children. 18.  Myxedema - Severe hypothyroidism in adults. In the next post, we will se

As a medical transcription learner, you must know about the difference between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack. The three important things between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack. Heart Attack: 1.  Heart attack means blood flow to the heart from other organs or parts of the body is hindered by any blockage in the blood arteries, and heart attack happens. 2.  In heart attack, the heart beats will not stop necessarily immediately. 3.  Heart attack is just a problem of circulation of blood. Cardiac Arrest: 1.  Cardiac arrest means a sudden stoppage of heart beats due to malfunction in the heart and so blood supply is affected to the vital organs such as brain, lungs, and kidneys etc. 2.  In cardiac arrest, the heart beat stops immediately. 3.  Cardiac arrest is a problem of the electrical conduction inside the heart. In the next post, we will study about what is ECMO and its uses. Okay. To go to Home Page, click here.

After a gap of a few months our blog is updated with a new lesson update.  Here onwards, new lessons will be updated frequently on a regular basis of 2 days interval. In this lesson, we will see about some important medical terms are used in Ear, Nose, and Throat are of medicine on a day-to-day basis whenever we handle medical transcription job as a profession. 1.  Pulse oximetry - A device used to detect oxygen (O2) in the blood stream of a patient. 2.  Hyperventillation:  Excessive breathing consumption by a patient in particular period of time. 3.  Salivary amylaze:  An enzyme is produced in saliva of a human being to digest carbohydrates of food materials consumed. 4.  Mastication:  It is the process of chewing of a food. 5.  Buccal mucosa:  Inner layer of the mucous membrane of the mouth. 6.  Lingual:  Pertaining to tongue. 7.  Hypoxemia:  A condition of reduced oxygen in a patient's blood. 8.  Aptyalism:  An abnormal condition of lack of secr

 We can divide the drugs normally used in the medicine field to cure diseases or to control the symptoms of a patient are of approximately 13 in varieties.  They are of Eye drops, nasal sprays, tablets, nasal solutions, capsule, syrup, ointments, vaccines, inhalational drug forms, vaccines, intrauterine contraceptive device, hormonal drug forms, ointments. We will see about one by one now. Eye and Ear drops: Commonly eye drops are in liquid form to apply through eyes and ears to cure any infection conditions like conjunctivitis, red eyes, itchy eyes etc.  Ear drops are used to cure ear infections like otitis. Nasal sprays:  These are used to treat conditions like allergic rhinitis and nasal congestion etc. Tablets:  They are solid unit of dosage forms of a medicine with active substances of materials to cure  any separate or combined medicinal effect in a patient's body.  We can see tablets in round, elliptical, or square forms generally in medicine shops. Nasal solutions:

Medicines are used  to cure a disease or controlling symptoms or for any other purposes in any human body or  in  any animals can be administered in three routes, they are enteral, parenteral, and local ways.  We will see about the routes of these one by one now. Before this we should understand that medicines are of different in forms.  They are of eye drops, nasal sprays, tablets, nasal solutions, capsules, syrups, ointments, vaccines, inhalational drugs,  intrauterine contraceptives, and hormonal drugs etc., All kind of these drugs can be given by a medical professional using the enteral parenteral, and local ways to administer inside a patient's body to cure or control a disease or any disease conditions etc.,  Entral:  This method of medicine administration can be given in 3 ways such as oral, rectal, and sublingual.  Tablets, capsules, syrup are for examples are administered through oral route.  Rectal suppositories like drugs are administered through rectal rou

In the series of free medical transcription course online our new addition of lesson today is about the ways of drug or medicine administration in human. Though we take pills or tabs or tubes via orally, it is one among some routes of drug administration to cure any disease or symptom control in a human body. The other routes of ways of administration is done not by the patient himself as in oral administration method. The other ways of drug administration are tried when the patient is unable to administer via  oral route or the drug may not be able to administer via mouth of the patient or the medicine may get good effects when tried in other ways of administration etc., The other routes of medicine administration other than oral route are inhalational or nasal administration, tracheal, intramuscular, subcutaneous, intravenous, and intra-articular. Now, we will see the meaning and the importance of these methods of medicine administration one by one. Inhalational or nasal

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Some of these gastrointestinal system words and definitions are used in Medical Transcription field. In all medical transcription documents, these words are used in all parts especially in the physical examination part. 1.  Hypercardia - Hypertrophy (enlargement) of the heart. 2.  Hyperventillation - Excessive breathing.  3.  Mastication - Chewing. 4.  Pulse oxymetry - A device to deduct the oxygen in the human. 4.   BAG - Blood Arterial Gas Analysis. 5.  Salivary amylase - the enzyme that digests carbohydrates in the human gastrointestinal system. 6.  Mastication - Chewing of food. 7.  Buccal Mucosa - Inner layer of mouth. 8.  Lingual - related to tongue. 9.  Hypoxemia - Reduced oxygen in blood. 10.  Sialorrhea - excessive formation of saliva (hypersalivation) 11.  Oral cavity - Space inside the mouth. 12.  Digestive tract - It consists of mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, and anus. 13.  Small intestine - It co

These slangs are short forms of important medial words often used in medical transcription documents as a short form. You should know about these important slangs so that you can become a successful medical transcription professional in the future. 1.  Meds - Medications 2.  Fluoro - Fluoroscope 3.  Bili - Bilirubin 4.  Retic - Reticulocyte 5.  Chem - Chemistry 6.  Echo - Echocardiogram 7.  Primip - Primipara  (a female who gives her first child birth). 8.  Cysto - Cystogram 9.   Dc'd - Discontinued 10.  Trach - Tracheostomy 11.  Dig or Dij - Digoxin 12.  Coag - Coagulants 13.  Fib - Fibers 14.  Ca or CA - Calcium 15.  K - Potassium 16.  Multip - Multiple 17.  Lap Chole - Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy 18.  'crit - Hematocrit 19.  Peds - Pediatrics 20.   Mets - Metastasis 21.  Lytes - Electrolyes 22.  Cath - Catheter 23.  Diff - Differential 24.  Nitro -  Nitroglycerine In the ne

This video explains how to fix screen resolution lock screen after installing windows 10 in PC. We will see this in step-by-step. 1. The default screen resolution cannot be changed without updating the driver.  Once you install Windows 10 with low resolution desktop screen. 2. To change this, we cannot do this directly by changing the screen resolution like windows 7 or other version of windows OS.  Then how to do this? 3.  To do this first go SETTINGS by clicking the left hand corner WINDOWS symbol like this.  Then, click SYSTEM > then select as in the image in the next screen. 4.  After reaching DISPLAY screen, you can “1” symbol on the right hand top and the default resolution settings like this with 1024 x 768 default resolution below the “1”.   There you cannot change the screen resolution to higher one as in other versions, as the SCREEN RESOLUTION is locked by default. 5.  To change this default screen resolution to the higher one we wan

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