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Medical Topics - Acclimatization
- The adjustments of a human body or other organism to a new environment.
- Acetyl-Salicyclic Acid
CH3COOC6H4COOH Commonly known as Aspirin, a white solid. Used in medicine as an antipyretic and analgesic. - Anomia
- A neurological disorder which causes a marked inability to name otherwise familiar stimuli.
- Apgar Scale
- Standardized scale that is used to determine the physical status of an infant at birth.
- Apgar, Virginia
- Professor of anesthesiology at the New York Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, devised the Apgar Scale in 1953.
- Apical Turn
- The final turn in the spiral of the cochlea furthest from the oval and round windows.
- Apothecaries Ounce
- Once used as a measurement of weight for drugs and other medical substances.
- Aspirin
- Common name for Acetyl-Salicyclic Acid.
- Audiogram
- Graph of hearing threshold level as a function of frequency.
- Audiometer
- An instrument for measuring hearing acuity.
- Auditory Anomia
- A neurological disorder which causes a marked inability to name otherwise familiar acoustic stimuli such as a door bell or motor vehicle.
- Auditory Cortex
- Region of the cortex devoted to the analysis of sound information.
- Auditory Nerve
- Bundle of nerve fibers that carry information from the cochlea to the higher stages of the auditory system.
- Biotin
- Commonly known as vitamin H.
- Blood
- A liquid that circulates inside the bodies of animals.
- Carcinogens
- Substances known to cause cancer.
- CH3COOC6H4COOH
- Chemical formula for Acetyl-Salicyclic Acid.
- Cochlea
- A snail shaped mechanism in the inner ear that contain hair cells of basilar membrane that vibrate to aid in frequency recognition.
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Hearing loss due to the impairment of sound transmission before it reaches the inner ear.
- Cyanocobolamin
- Commonly known as vitamin B12.
- Diaphoretic
- Any substance which induces perspiration when administered to a patient.
- Ear
- The human ear, as a sound receiver, has to operate under a wide range of conditions.
- Earmuff
- Hearing protector worn over the pinna of an ear.
- Earplug
- Hearing protector that is inserted into the ear canal.
- Excitotoxin
- An excitotoxin is a toxic molecule that stimulates nerve cells so much that they are damaged or killed.
- Explosive Decompression
- A very rapid reduction of air pressure inside a cabin, coming to a new static condition of balance with the external pressure.
- Genetic Engineering
- A man-made method of altering the genes to change the characteristics of an organism.
- Grain
- An individual crystal in a poly-crystalline metal or alloy.
- Hearing
- The subjective human response to sound.
- Hearing Damage
- A person exposed to high noise levels can suffer hearing damage. The damage may be gradual or traumatic.
- Hearing Protector
- Personal device worn to reduce harmful auditory or annoying subjective effects of sound.
- Hippocrates
- He believed that "the four fluids or humours of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile) are the primary seats of disease."
- Hyperbarism
- Disturbances in the body resulting from an excess of the ambient pressure over that within the body fluids, tissues, and cavities.
- Hyperoxia
- A condition in which the total oxygen content of the body is increased above that normally existing at sea level.
- Hypobarism
- Disturbances resulting from a decrease of ambient pressure to less than that within the body fluids, tissues, and cavities.
- Kidney
- An organ in the body which is used for excretion.
- Laughing Gas
- Nitrous oxide, an anaesthetic.
- Niacin
- Vitamin B3 is a crystalline acid found in meat and yeast and produced by the oxidation of nicotine.
- Nicotinic Acid
- Vitamin B3 is a crystalline acid found in meat and yeast and produced by the oxidation of nicotine.
- Nobel Prize
- Awarded annually as per Alfred Nobel′s last will and testament.
- Otologist
- A physician who specializes in the ear and its diseases.
- Pathogen
- Any microorganism or substance that causes disease.
- Presbycusis
- Gradual and biologically normal loss of acute hearing with advancing age.
- Protein
- A very large, naturally occurring polyamide formed from a selection of the 20 or so naturally occurring amino acids.
- Rad
- The rad is a unit used to measure absorbed radiation dose.
- Radiation Absorbed Dose
- The rad is a unit used to measure absorbed radiation dose.
- Riboflavin
- Commonly known as vitamin B2.
- Schneider Index
- A composite weighted index of pulse and blood-pressure response to exercise, utilized as a test of physical efficiency.
- Sensation Level
- The level of psychophysiologic stimulation above the threshold.
- Significant Threshold Shift
- A shift in hearing threshold, outside the range of audiometric testing variability.
- Smell
- Human can detect around 10000 different smells.
- Synaesthesia
- A cross talk effect in the brain in which one sensory pathway links across to another, resulting in two outputs from one input.
- Teratogen
- A substance that can cause deformities in embryos. Dioxin is a teratogen.
- Vein
- A blood vessel that carries blood towards the heart.
- Virus
- A small microbe. Viruses cause diseases such as the common cold, flu, polio and smallpox.
 
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