Basics of Medical Terminology - By A Power Coding (APC)

Review essential medical terminology, including red blood cells and heme carrying oxygen, menarche, small intestine parts duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood.

Explore upper body muscle anatomy from head and neck to chest and back, highlighting deltoid, pectoralis major, latissimus dorsi, trapezius, biceps, triceps, and rotator cuff muscles like supraspinatus and infraspinatus.

Learn bone density concepts—cortical thickness, porosity, and calcium and vitamin D deficiency leading to osteoporotic bone—while identifying the three muscle types—cardiac, skeletal, and smooth—and their striations.

Trace blood flow from the heart to the lungs and body, detailing arteries, veins, capillaries, and the hepatic portal system, hepatic and renal arteries, and the inferior vena cava.

Explore the arterial and venous branches of the circulatory system, tracing common carotid to femoral arteries and their venous counterparts, and learn clinical applications like angiography, angioplasty, and phlebotomy.

Learn medical terminology basics, including prefixes and abbreviations for infections, reproductive system terms, abdominal anatomy, and GI tract concepts, with examples like abduction, ambidextrous, and transient ischemic attack.

Explore prefixes indicating location and disease spread, such as ecto versus endo and endemic, epidemic, pandemic. See examples like ectopic pregnancy and endoscopy, and learn abduction versus adduction.

Learn essential medical terminology for spine and hernia conditions and breast cancer, including herniation, hernia repair, hysterectomy, lithotripsy, mammography, and mastectomy with imaging examples.

Explore medical suffixes and abbreviations within obstetrics, CNS, and renal disease contexts. Learn key terms like menarche, cyesis, ectomy, laminectomy, and common infections mentioned in the lecture.

Explore atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, including risk factors like hypertension and dyslipidemia, angina and CAD, then analyze carpal tunnel syndrome with median nerve compression and hand anatomy.

Understand skin cancer basics, including basal cell cancer, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma, with focus on facial risk areas, sun exposure, and the role of melanin.

explains skin disorders, including staphylococcal folliculitis, carbuncles, and melanoma as a malignant pigmented tumor. defines graft types—allograft, homograft, and xenograft—and graft methods like split-thickness and full-thickness.

Explore Moh's micrographic surgery, using horizontal sectioning to assess margins and ensure cancer clearance, with the surgeon as pathologist during excisions in ill-defined borders (ear, nose, eye, mouth, scalp).

Learn medical numerology by mastering prefixes uni and mono, and contrasts such as unilateral vs bilateral, bicuspid vs tricuspid valves, and quadriplegia.

Understand dermatological injuries: contusion, abrasion, laceration, incision, and puncture, and learn the associated terminology and basic anatomy concepts.

Explore electroencephalography and brain waves to detect seizures and classify them, and discuss neuro glycol panic features and other terms like atherosclerotic encephalopathy and vascular dementia.

Explore angioplasty techniques to repair blocked coronary vessels using dye, catheterization, and balloon dilation, and learn thoracentesis to drain fluid from the thorax.

Master body positioning terms such as supination, pronation, abduction, adduction, circumlocution, flexion, and extension. Identify major bones like femur, tibia, fibula, humerus, radius, ulna, clavicle, scapula, and cranial bones.