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In medical settings, the term leads is also sometimes used to refer to the wires or to the electrodes themselves, although this is technically incorrect. [35] The term leads should be reserved for the electrocardiographic measurements or for their graphical representations. The 10 electrodes in a 12-lead ECG are listed below. [36]
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Two related terms, "abaxial" and "adaxial", refer to locations away from and toward the central axis of an organism, respectively; Luminal (from Latin lumen 'light, opening'): on the—hollow—inside of an organ's lumen (body cavity or tubular structure); [51] [52] adluminal is towards, abluminal is away from the lumen. [53]
List of deprecated terms for diseases; Medical slang – acronyms and informal terminology used to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts; Register (sociolinguistics) – Form of language used for a particular purpose or in a particular communicative situation
In medical terms, this is known as a heteroanamnesis, or collateral history, in contrast to a self-reporting anamnesis. Medical history taking may also be impaired by various factors impeding a proper doctor-patient relationship , such as transitions to physicians that are unfamiliar to the patient.
[3] [4] This commonly includes nasal obstruction, sore throat, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, sinusitis, otitis media, and the common cold. [5]: 28 Most infections are viral in nature, and in other instances, the cause is bacterial. [6] URTIs can also be fungal or helminthic in origin, but these are less common. [7]: 443–445
In medicine, triage (/ ˈ t r iː ɑː ʒ /, / t r i ˈ ɑː ʒ /) is a process by which care providers such as medical professionals and those with first aid knowledge determine the order of priority for providing treatment to injured individuals [1] and/or inform the rationing of limited supplies so that they go to those who can most benefit from it. [2]
In 2016, the average MCAT and GPA for students entering U.S.-based MD programs were 508.7 and 3.70, [49] respectively, and 503.8 and 3.54 for DO matriculants. [50] DO medical schools are more likely to accept non-traditional students, who are older, coming to medicine as a second career, etc. [51] [52]