Today, on top of some surprisingly lucid lectures, we did something new! We had a physiology small group case study lesson which entails the following: we are given a write-up about a patient and asked to think of possible diagnoses; we decide on further tests we would like to order and justify the need for said tests; we are then given the results of the desired tests (see pic below) and are then asked to come up with a final explanation of what is going on with the patient.
It's almost like were doctors! Except that 80% of people got each question wrong the first time around... Hey, we're only 12.5% of the way through med school, so cut us a break!
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| Important medical gibberish gleamed from the fake tests we ordered on our fake patient |
TIL: "Night repair" beauty products must be used at night because they contain vitamin A, which is extremely light sensitive. If applied during the day, the drug becomes intensely active and can cause chemical burns.
The oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids is the main cause of the smell associated with spoiled food.
One possible explanation for elderly people always feeling cold is the decreased sensitivity to sympathetic adrenergic neurotransmitters that control vasoconstriction in non-glabrous skin. Rather confusingly, glabrous skin is non-hairy skin and non-glabrous skin is hairy skin.
Cor bovinum (literally "cow heart") is a term for the massive left ventricular hypertrophy - thickening of the walls of the left side of the heart. As my professor said today, "If you're going to insult your patient, do it in Latin."
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