Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

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...

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...

 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...