10 Medical Facts of Today!

Today, 9-20 we bring you 10 new medical facts so you can increase your knowledge and hopefully have some fun at the same time!

So, let's start with the questions:

• What is poliomyelitis?

A. Poliomyelitis, also known as polio, is a contagious disease that affects mainly the nervous system. Most of the time this condition has no symptoms, it is caused by the poliovirus.

• If you were having a tomodensitometry, what would you be having?

A. If you were having a tomodensitometry, you would be having a CT scan or computed tomography, this is just a rarely used synonym.

• What do you think happens if a cell is in a hypotonic condition?

A. In that case, the cell will increase it’s volume when trying to re-establish the osmotic equilibrium at both sides of the cellular membrane.

• If a patient has an abscess, what does this patient have?

A. If a patient has a an abscess it means that he/she has an accumulation of pus within the tissue of the body, generally due to a bacterial infection. It can develop anywhere in the body.

• What does pleocytosis stands for?

A. Pleocytosis stands for a number unusually high of cells in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). It refers particularly to an out of range increase in lymphocytes or white blood cells.

• And talking about lymphocytes, what are the neutrophils?

A. As lymphocytes, neutrophils are a type of white blood cell making about 55 to 70 % of their total number. They are a crucial part of our body’s immune system.

• If someone asks you to find the etiology of a disease, what is he asking you to do?

A. If someone asks you to find the etiology of a disease, he is asking you to find what was the cause of the disease, what originated it. Etiology comes from the greek etio - causation - and ology - the study of something -.

• What is a flavivirus?

A. Flavivirus is a genus of ARN viruses in the family Flaviviridae. They can be transmitted by ticks, mosquitoes, and cause diseases like the West Nile Virus, Dengue Virus, Yellow Fever and others.

• What is a coproculture?

A. Coproculture is the culture of the feces with the purpose to find the pathogenic microorganisms that can be causing a disease such as diarrhea, digestive infections among others.

• And to finish some basic biochemistry, What does HCO3 stands for?

A. HCO3 is the chemical formula for Bicarbonate and is the second largest fraction of the anions in plasma.

Well this is all for today, I hope you liked, see you in our next post!