FOM Actual Flashcards
Etiology of disease occurs due to which 3 factors? Also known as epidemiological triangle
Agent
Host
Environmental
Common Disease stages
susceptibility
Pre symptomatic disease
Clinical disease
Recovery, disability or death
Demography the study of human population focuses on 3 things which are?
Change in population size
Composition of the population
Distribution of population in space
Demographic processes include
Fertility
Mortality
Marriage
Migration
Social mobility
Types of population census
De facto: physically present
De jure: permanent residents
Global fertility rate
2.5
Population density is
No of persons living per square kilometer
Dependents age range
0-14 and 65+
iatrogenic disease
Caused by medical intervention
Who discovered blood circulation?
William Harvey 1616
Human to human blood transfusion in what year? And by who
1818
James Blundell
Father of modern blood transfusion
James Blundell
Karl landsteiner discovered the ABO blood group in what year and was given a Nobel price in what year
1900
1930
Who discovered the Rhesus factor
Karl Landsteiner & Alexander S. Wiener
What war led to blood typing
WW1
Who describes antiglobulin testing
Robert Coombs
Theory of Disease in the ancient world.
Health was seen as a balance of what 4 Humors
Black bile
Yellow bile
Phlegm
Blood
The Humors theory was adapted by?
Hippocrates
Diagnosis earliest medical textbook
Edwin Smith Papyrus
4 diagnostic methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Inspection
Inquiry
Listening & smelling
Palpitation
Who discovered X-ray and in what year
He got the Nobel prize in what year
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
8 Nov 1895
1901