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Radiology – is the medical discipline that uses medical imaging to diagnose and treat diseases within the body. Radius – The radius, or radial bone, is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna. It extends from the lateral side of the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist and runs parallel to the ulna. The ulna is ...
A sphygmomanometer (/ ˌ s f ɪ ɡ m oʊ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ t ə r / SFIG-moh-mə-NO-mi-tər), also known as a blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, [1] and a mercury or aneroid manometer to measure the pressure.
Another significant difference between Hoffmann's reflex and the Babinski sign is their mechanism of reflex. Hoffmann's reflex is a deep tendon reflex (spindle fibre) with a monosynaptic reflex pathway in Rexed lamina IX of the spinal cord, normally fully inhibited by descending input.
A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implant, in vitro reagent, or similar or related article that is used to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or other conditions, and does not achieve its purposes through chemical action within or on the body (which would make it a drug).
The medical device itself dates back to the Roman empire and, as Greves points out, was found in Pompeii as far back as A.D. 79. But the modern speculum, which has a dark history, ...
Uses; Bandage: material used to support a medical dressing or injured body part Bedpan: for patients who are unconscious or too weak to sit up or walk to the toilet to defecate: Cannula: to create a permanent pathway to a vein (or artery) for the purpose of repeated injections or infusion of intravenous fluids: Catheter
A ventilator is a medical breathing apparatus that provides breaths to a person impaired in their ability to breathe. [64] venturi mask A venturi mask, also known as an air-entrainment mask, is a medical device to deliver a known oxygen concentration to patients on controlled oxygen therapy. [73] [74] volume control ventilation
The expression surgical instrumentation is somewhat interchangeably used with surgical instruments, [27] but its meaning in medical jargon is the activity of providing assistance to a surgeon with the proper handling of surgical instruments during an operation, by a specialized professional, usually a surgical technologist or sometimes a nurse ...