Class notes 1/21-2/10
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- Hydrogen
- water producing when mixed with O2
- deltoid
- muscle at beginning of arm
- salpingo
- signal trumpet as referenced in ear and fallopian tube
- ipecac
- if someone has injested poison, this makes people vomit - from SOUTH AMERICA; comes from Native American word ipecacuonha - creeping plant that induces vomiting / plant brought over in 19th century to help with dysentary / this is an emetic (something that induces vomiting)
- thrombocyte
- lump / clump that can cause a stroke (made of platelets) leads to clotting
- epilepsy
- latch onto; seize (from epilampano) / this was considered the sacred disease
- hypodermic needle
- needle that goes under the skin
- carotid
- karow = stupify or dull
- saphenous vein
- saphenous means "clear" - one of two very obvious veins in leg
- adeno
- acorn/gland
- lithopedian
- stone child
- kele
- herniation
- vagina
- scabard (latin)
- alcohol
- arabic / al=the / cohol - very fine powder which women would decorate their uppoer eye with / was considered a distillate
- chemistry
- from alchemy
- abcess
- go from (cess is from cedo = from)
- trepination
- boring into skulkl
- migraine
- throbbing headache that is usually unilateral resulting from vasodilation / Egyptians described suffering in head (healed by rubbing fried catfish skull on head to transfer smoothe roundness / egyptian gs-tp = half head -> gr. hemikranion / latin takes away h and makes c sound like g -> migraine
- malaria
- polution / when matter corrupted, it released deadly gas (bad air)
- anti-emetic
- reduces nausia
- emetic
- something that induces vomiting
- nostalgia
- disease of soldier =contageous missing of home
- anaesthesia
- the state of not feeling
- optic chiasm
- where eyes cross
- gongenital
- born with it
- eponym
- means "name after" - a disease or anatomy named after someone
- metopic suture
- binding of skull plates in forehead
- Caesarean section
- comes from caedo (cut)
- sphincter
- from oedipus rex - sphinx clutches you if gets word wrong / sphincter also controls pupil
- sigmoid
- colon
- frango, fractus broken
- broken
- shampoo
- derived from Hindi word "champo" = to massage
- hyoid
- shaped like a U - bone that supports muscles of the tongue
- caedo
- cut
- Pb (lead)
- from plumbum (pipes had 60% lead)
- enfluenza
- from italian, ultimately latin, in fluo = to flow into / in Rome, stars and planets are in a configuration that leads to influence that is malign which leads to an epidemic
- ammonia
- invisible got of air / there was a pit of urea in rome referred to as amon
- artery
- from greek arterion = air carrier
- lambdoid suture
- when you look at the back of the skull
- osteon
- bone
- lingua (latin word for)
- tonuge
- morphe
- shape
- eczema
- superficial dermititis (ma=result of, ze = I boil, ek=out)
- tracheostomy
- formation of a stoma in the trach
- cornu
- horn in latin / part of the hyoid
- castrate
- from costra because you cut away foliage at roman camps (costra)
- supraorbital process
- comes forward primarily in men
- kondros
- cartilidge
- stellate
- comminuted fracture = starlike structure
- emeo
- vomit
- process (as in anatomy)
- something that comes forward (zyphoid process)