[1] HISTORY OF MT IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Flashcards

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He is known as the “Father of Medicine”

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Hippocrates

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Body fluids that are named “Four Humors”

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Blood, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, Black Bile

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He wrote “uroscopy” and formulated the humoral pathology (source of person’s disposition and disease in ancient times)

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Hippocrates

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Was used as a marker for diagnosis

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Urine

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Excessive urination of the body (More than 2.5 Liters)

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Polyuria

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Normal urine excreted a day

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2 Liters ONLY

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Old way of testing urine

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Uroscopy

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3 things to check during urinalysis

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Physical exam, chemical exam, microscopic analysis

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Factors to check during physical exam of urine

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Color, Clarity, Odor

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It is defined as the urine that is freshly harvested, but with an unclear and murky appearance

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Turbid urine

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Strips with chemicals impregnated in it then dipped in urine to check for chemical reactions

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Reagent strips

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Recorded the sweet taste of diabetic urine

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Hindu physician

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They conclude diabetes by observing the urine if ants are attracted to it

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Greeks

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They practiced immunization to smallpox

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Chinese

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They developed scalpels, forceps, specula, surgical needles

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Romans

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Practice of toxicology, distillation, pharmacy analysis and separation of minerals

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Indians

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He 1st described hematuria by correlating the presence of blood to the physiological function of kidney

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Rufus of Ephesus

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Tagged by Herodotus as the healthiest man

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Early Egyptians

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If a person experiences polyuria, what diseases can they possibly have?

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Diabetes
Kidney stones
Bladder infection
Kidney failure

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Advancements in technology, development of new scientific methods, discovery of disease-causing microorganisms, invention of microscope, cholera outbreak

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Medieval Laboratory practices (16th-18th Century)

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Cholera outbreak was traced by who?

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Jon Snow

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He invented the first microscope

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Zacharias Janssen

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Used microscope to investigate the causes of dsx

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Athanasius Kircher

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Published micrographia

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Robert Hooke

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Developed the gravimetric analysis of urine
Jean Baptiste van Helmont
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Described protein in urine
Frederick Dekkers
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Performed the 1st blood transfusion in animals
Richard Lower
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Described the process of coagulation
Willian Hewson
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Developed the yeast test for sugar in diabetic urine
Francis Home
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Identified sugar in the blood and urine of diabetics
Matthew Dobson
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Traces the beginning of Medical Technology
Vivian Herrick
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Common name of intestinal parasites
Roundworm Whipworm Hookworm Threadworm Seat worm/pinworm
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Believed that Medical Technology began when a book of treatment of diseases was published
Ebers Papyrus
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3 stages of hookworm infection
Egg, larva, adult
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Stated that Medical Technology began from medieval period
Ruth Williams
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They made the scientific observation that the urine of certain individuals attracted ants and the urine has a sweet taste
Early Hindu doctors
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Medical term for listening to body part; the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis.
Auscultation
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What is sign?
Signs are objective evidences such as skin rash, redness of eye due to conjunctivitis (Pink Eye) A sign is a health issue that can be observed/ physically seen Vital Signs include: Heart rate (pulse), Breathing rate Temperature Blood pressure
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What is a symptom?
Subjective evidence Not physical A symptom is the subjective experience of a potential health issue, which cannot be observed by a doctor If you’re having symptoms, you’re the only person who can describe them.
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Give an example of symptoms
Stomach cramps, Headache, Fatigue
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Medical doctors diagnose diseases based on ____?
Appearances
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A process wherein a doctor differentiates between two or more conditions that could be behind a person's symptoms.
Differential diagnosis
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Differentiate immunization from vaccination
IMMUNIZATION refers to the process of both getting the vaccine and becoming immune to the disease following vaccination while VACCINATION is the term used for getting a vaccine — that is, actually getting the injection or taking an oral vaccine dose
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True or False: If you are exposed to a certain disease, you can be exposed to it again without becoming infected.
TRUE (Body already produced antibodies)
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Varicella zoster virus (VZV) cause an acute disease called ?
Chicken pox
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Presence of blood in urine
Hematuria
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Presence of protein in the urine
Proteinauria
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Clotting of blood
Coagulation
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TRUE OR FALSE: Vaccines contain weakened/attenuated/dead antigens while antitoxins contain antibodies
TRUE
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An organ that develops in the uterus during pregnancy and provides oxygen and nutrients to a growing baby. It also removes waste products from the baby's blood.
Placenta
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The _______ attaches to the wall of the uterus, and the baby's umbilical cord arises from it.
Placenta
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Foreign body/substance or infectious agents not normally present in our bodies
Antigen
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These are proteins that are produced by the immune system when we are exposed to antigens. They fight and ward off the so-called antigens.
Antibody
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These are proteins that are produced by the immune system when we are exposed to antigens. They fight and ward off the so-called antigens.
Antibody
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Used to produce antibodies
Vaccine
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Tricks the immune system into thinking that it is again seeing a pathogen, so antibody-producing cells, and other immune cells, are recalled into gear. The quantity and quality of antibodies that are produced can increase.
Booster shot
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An infection of the intestine caused by Vibrio cholerae bacteria
Cholera
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A class of lab techniques used to determine the mass or concentration of a substance by measuring a change in mass
Gravimetric analysis
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Blood contains _______ and blood clotting factors which cause clotting when blood is exposed to air.
Fibrinogen
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Prevents any clots from forming
Anti-coagulant
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Both come from the liquid portion of the blood that remains once the cells are removed
Serum and plasma
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Obtained after clotting of blood
Serum
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Can be obtained before coagulation
Plasma
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The liquid that remains when clotting is prevented with the addition of an anticoagulant.
Plasma
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Contains fibrinogen which is absent in serum
Plasma
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SERUM is ____ while PLASMA is ____
Fluid ; Liquid
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Remains after the blood has clotted
Serum
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What are the 2 types of Immunity?
Innate/Natural Immunity ; Adaptive/Acquired Immunity
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Examples of innate immunity.
Skin, cough reflex, mucus, white blood cells
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What are the two main types of white blood cells?
Granulocytes Agranulocytes
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_______ are type of white blood cells that has small granules.
Granulocytes
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It is a type of WBC that fights bacterial infections.
Neutrophil
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It is a type of WBC that fights parasitic infections.
Eosinophil
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It is a type of WBC that helps your body respond to allergic reactions.
Basophils
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_______ are white blood cells that have no distinct granules in their cytoplasm.
Agranulocytes
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It is a type of a WBC that is a part of the immune system
Lymphocytes
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It is a type of WBC that destroy the body's own cells that have themselves been taken over by viruses or become cancerous.
T Cells / T lymphocytes
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It is a type of WBC that produces antibodies that are used to attack invading bacteria, viruses, and toxin
B Cells / B lymphocyte
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It is a type of WBC that eat infectious agents or dead cells and are considered as phagocytes.
Monocytes
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These are the two types of adaptive/acquired immunity.
Active and Passive
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It is acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease.
Adaptive Active Natural Immunity
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It is is acquired through the introduction of a killed or weakened form of the disease organism through vaccination.
Adaptive Active Artificial Immunity
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It is is provided when a person is given antibodies to a disease rather than producing them through his or her own immune system.
Passive Immunity
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Give an example of Adaptive Passive Natural Immunity.
When pregnant, the mother passess maternal antibodies to fetus through placenta. Maternal antibodies: transferred from mother to child
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Give an example of Adaptive Passive Artificial Immunity.
Injecting antitoxins which contains antibodies
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Antigen is being passed/acquired
Active Immunity
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Antibody is being passed/acquired
Passive Immunity