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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...

 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 medi...

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 l...

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 n...

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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, stomac...

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 - Electr...