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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGICAL 1. BLADDER CALCULUS – Bladder Calculus is also known as bladder stone and are caused due to building up of minerals in the body. 2. DIFFICULTY IN MICTURITION – Difficulty in micturition is known as difficulty in the discharge of the urine from the bladder. 3. TURD – Trans Urethral Resection of Prostate is a surgery used to treat urinary problems due to an enlarged prostate. 4. BNR – Bladder Neck Reconstruction 5. LSCS – Lower Segment Caesarean section is also called…

5. Minor pain in the abdomen – The cancer can grow rather large and may start pushing on the surrounding organs and cause minimal pain in the back and in the abdomen. 6. Swelling of the Gall Bladder – The same thing that causes jaundice also causes the gall bladder to swell. On the positive side, an enlarged gall bladder can be seen and felt on imaging tests and physical exams which can lead to early diagnosis of the cancer. 7. Arbitrary loss of weight – Most people usually want to lose weight,…

A changing society was ready for new ideas to explain the functions of the brain and many people welcomed the doctrine of Phrenology (Critchley, 1965). People began to believe less in God and phrenology offered an innovative view, starting to question both materialism and fatalism. After an attack on phrenology by the Edinburgh Review, which was a very highly respected magazine, the Edinburgh Phrenological Society decided to accommodate the science to become appealing to the public. The Society…

1840’s, many biased studies were orchestrated that provided the world with nothing but prejudiced and inaccurate results. One such study performed by German physiologist Franz Joseph Gall. Gall believed that one’s brain has multiple “organs” and that each “organ” complies with different mental abilities or traits. Gall insisted that studying of the size, shape, and the geography of the human skull could cater…

philosophically and experimentally. While Rene Descartes posited that the brain is made from substance and the mind or soul was made from nonsubstance, Thomas Hobbes believed that the mind is a function of the brain. Gall, Flourens and Broca approached this philosophical debate experimentally. Gall discovered that intelligence roughly correlated with the size of the head. Flourens determined that an intact brain was required for mental processes by studying animals that had their brains…

in the 1700s, Franz Gall established the science of phrenology, which is liable to assess a person’s psychological characteristics through techniques. Gall believed by studying a structural skull the determination of one’s mental capacity and personality could be inferred. Gall continue to analyze the structure of the brain by formulating that it had many mental functions and the bumps and contours explains personality characteristics. Utilizing the science of phrenology Gall considered criminal…

Sources say that he thoroughly enjoyed playing the part of the doubted scientist in a conservative society, whose modern theories would one day be accepted as truth (Van Wyhe, 1999). Combe saw phrenology as an “egotistically satisfying means of affronting the conventional” (Cooter, 1984). He dedicated the rest of his life to promoting phrenology, and wrote The Constitution of Man, a book on natural philosophy (Jenkins, 2015). The book sold an astonishing 350,000 copies between 1828 and 1900;…

INTRODUCTION Haiti is a nation where the people are resilient, prayers are consistent and work hard with perseverance. Born in Haiti but, raised in Florida, I found myself doing research on the country that has formed a place in my heart. After doing much research at the library and even online, I found that Haiti is a country known as the "Mountainous Land” (Girault). It is usually remembered for its poverty and its recent earthquake back in January 2010 where thousands of people were killed…

disease, it is not viable to producers, but this is certainly not true. Corn smut is edible and it actually sought after by many consumers. In Mexico, galls on ears of corn are a used for food, and are known as cuitlacoache. Symptoms of this disease are that young galls become silver-white to gray at maturity and inside mature medium-sized galls are billions of sooty black spores. Southern Corn Leaf Blight is a fungal disease, but unlike the other fungal disease, we have previously discussed,…

For my case study I diagnosed my patient with Volvulus of the small bowel. Volvulus is an obstruction caused by twisting of the intestine that can occur at any part of your gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms of Volvulus are: abdominal tenderness, dark/bloody stool, constipation, distended abdomen, pain in abdomen, and nausea/vomiting. Volvulus usually occours to infants usually during the first year of life. The patient is a 10 month old, female, this coresponds with the diagnosis of Volvulus as…