| Arcane
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| 726951. Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:47 am |
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Bemahan's "Islets of Langerhans" (located in the pancreas) comment was a good one, so in the spirit of that, I thought I'd create a topic for interesting I medical information.
Now this, despite me having worked in the medical industry for most of my working life, I did not know.
Iatrophobia: Fear of going to the doctor. |
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| RLDavies
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| 726953. Sat Jul 10, 2010 6:54 am |
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| Iatrogenic: caused by medical treatment or the actions of medical personnel. Usually used in a negative sense, e.g. an iatrogenic infection is one picked up in hospital. |
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| djgordy
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| 726993. Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:45 am |
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| If only someone had thought about starting an "Ills and Illness" thread. |
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| tetsabb
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| 727143. Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:46 am |
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| That would have been silly.. |
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| gerontius grumpus
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| 730298. Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:38 pm |
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Iodine based intravenous contrast agents.
Modern contrast agents are non-ionic and much less likely to cause allergic reactions than their predecessors. They do however cause slight irritation in the blood vessels, this manifests itself as a warm feeling. When injected quickly, this is felt on the skin surface in the lower abdomen, so patients often believe they have been incontinent. |
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| Arcane
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| mckeonj
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| 737988. Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:00 pm |
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| I knew a man who was internally decapitated and survived; he was injured in a car collision. When I met him a couple of weeks later, he was walking around with his head resting on his shoulder, and we had conversation. |
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| plinkplonk
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| 738475. Wed Sep 01, 2010 12:52 pm |
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| Then there is the ileum, which isn't where you'd find topless towers, but is the final section of the small intestine which has the iliac muscle, the intestine as a whole, the internal organs as a whole, the intermetacarpal articulations, the intertarsal articulations, the infrahydroid muscles, the internal carotid artery, the inferior vena cava, the inferior pulmonary vein, the internal ear, the incisors, the irises in the eye and, of course, the ickle fingers and ickle toes. |
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| smiley_face
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| 745357. Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:11 pm |
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| RLDavies wrote: | | an iatrogenic infection is one picked up in hospital. |
You'd usually call it a nosocomial infection. "Iatrogenic" usually implies that it is a consequence of some direct medical intervention, e.g. a side effect of a drug / other intervention. Hospital-based infections such MRSA / resistant c.diff aren't really the result of a direct intervention, rather just being in hospital, so wouldn't generally be called "iatrogenic". |
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| smiley_face
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| 745358. Tue Sep 21, 2010 12:21 pm |
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| plinkplonk wrote: | | Then there is the ileum, which isn't where you'd find topless towers, but is the final section of the small intestine which has the iliac muscle, the intestine as a whole, the internal organs as a whole, the intermetacarpal articulations, the intertarsal articulations, the infrahydroid muscles, the internal carotid artery, the inferior vena cava, the inferior pulmonary vein, the internal ear, the incisors, the irises in the eye and, of course, the ickle fingers and ickle toes. |
The iliac muscle is nowhere near the ileum.
It's the "infrahyoid" muscles. No "hydroid" in there.
"Inner ear" rather than "internal ear". |
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