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Now let us learn about some of the muscular actions and their meanings. As a human being we live with movements using our muscles and bones of different kinds. Each muscle contracts and expands in combination with bone corresponding to the muscle attached to it, and so we can move easily in a smooth manner. These movements are as follows. They are flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, dorsiflexion, plantar flexion, supination, and pronation. As a medical transcription aspirant, we should know about these movement types and should have a good understanding about them. We will see the explanation of each movement type one by one now. 1. For ‘flexion’ the term means lessening or decreasing the angle between two bones or bending a limb. 2. For ‘extension’ the term means increasing or to make much the angle between two bones or straightening out a limb. 3. For ‘abduction’ the term means the movement or acting away from the midline of the body. 4. For ‘adducti...

What is Alzheimer’s disease? Alzheimer’s disease is called AD in short.  The other names of this disease will make us understand the actuality of this disease more.  SDAT is the another name of AD and it is expanded as senile dementia of the Alzheimer type or PDDAT and it is expanded as primary degenerative dementia of the Alzheimer's type.  Generally, all over the world this disease is termed as Alzheimer’s in short.  This is mainly a general type of dementia.  The name was given to this disease by a neurophysiologist name Alois Alzheimer, a German, who did describe about this disease condition for the first time to the world.  Alzheimer’s is a terminal illness as it is incurable and also degenerative.  The common symptoms of this disease are the lack of ability to create new memories, such as complexity in brining to mind newly scrutinized events or facts. Most probably a brain scan will reveal the existence of this disease accompanie...