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  • Who is considered as the father of Medicine around 300 BC-180 AD
    Hippocrates
  • Hippocrates is the author of what oath
    Hippocratic Oath
  • He is a greek physician and philosopher who instigated a rudimentary and qualitative assessment of disorder throug through measurement of body fluids 

    Galen
  • The four humors 

    blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile
  • Galen described diabetes as
    diarrhea of urine
  • Hippocrates concluded that the appearance of bubbles,blood and pus in urine indicated
    kidney disease and chronic illnesses
  • Diagnosis is Widely practiced in Medieval Europe
    water casting (uroscopy)
  • The time when Physicians began using machines for diagnosis or therapeutics
    19th Century
  • Measuring the vital capacity of the lungs
    John Hutchinson's spirometer
  • For measuring blood pressure
    Jules Herisson's sphygmomanometer
  • 900 AD 

    1st book detailing the characters of urine color density and quality
  • 11th century 

    medical practitioners were not allowed to conduct phtydical examinations relied on the patients description on symptoms and their observations
  • 15-16th century 

    Hans and Zacharias Janssen father and son invented the microscope some say its Hans Lippershey
  • 17th century 

    Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek greatly contributed to the development of microscope simple-celled form : portists
    Animalcules (Protoza)
  • Rober Hooke 

    seen the existance of cell through a microscope
  • Marcello Malpighi (Father of Histology)

    Embryology of chicken
  • Frederik Dekkers 

    Urine contained protein;precipitate when boiled with acetic acid
  • Thomas willis 

    best qualitative analysis of urine
    diabetes mellitus : sweeet urine
    Diabetes Insipidus : frequency of urination
  • Order of the parts of a medical term
    1. Prefix
    2. Root words
    3. Suffix
  • Root word
    main body of word that denotes the meaning of the word
    from greek and latin words
  • Prefix 

    General Modifier of the word
    Shows how meaning is assigned to the word
  • Suffix 

    It could be a procedure, condition, disease profession
    focus on the suffix to know what the word is about
  • Rules of Combining vowels
    • Add a vowel after a root word if the first letter of a suffix is a constant
    • Remove the last vowel of a root word if there is already a vowel in the first letter of a suffix
  • Ca 

    Cancer
  • Dx 

    Diagnosis
  • Spx
    Specimen
  • IV
    Intravenous
  • HPF
    High Power Field
  • LPF

    Low power fied
  • STI
    Sexually transmitted Infection
  • NPO
    Nothing Per Orem
  • TAG
    Triglyceride
  • HDL
    High Density Lipoprotein
  • ALT
    Alanin Transaminase
  • ACP
    Acyl Carrier Protein
  • ALP
    Alkaline Phosphatase
  • NPN
    Non protein Nitrogen
  • BUA
    Blood Uric Acid
  • GTT
    Glucose Tolerance Test
  • PCR
    Polymerase Chain Reaction