Guide of Scifir
Complete guide of medicine
Previous areas
- Chemistry:
- Cell biology:
- Anatomy:
- Physiology:
It’s not needed maths, language and any other school subject to learn medicine, that’s a requisite only for joining universities, but it’s not needed to study any medical topic.
Areas of medicine
Starting concepts
- Symptoms: How a persons feels in their body related to a disease, injury or condition.
- Signs: The observable external characteristics, like temperature and blood pressure.
- Blood exam:
- Medical image:
- Medical procedure:
- Medical treatment:
- Surgery:
Health centers
- Primary health care:
- Secondary health care:
- Tertiary health care:
Hospital rooms
- Medical consultation room:
- Exam room:
- Operating room:
- Room:
- Other rooms:
Health insurance
- Health insurance
World Health Organization (WHO)
Books
Papers
Nutrition
- Multivitaminic: Nutritional supplement that contains various vitamins and minerals. It’s very important to ingest one pill of it daily.
Pharmacology
- Analgesic:
- Antiinflammatory:
- Antihistaminic:
- Antineoplasic:
Surgery
Instruments
- Scalpel: Surgical instrument that allows to do an incision in the body.
Other concepts
- Suture: Procedure in which a part of the body that has been opened is sewed.
- Anesthesia: Procedure in which a nerve is injected with a substance that deactivates it and, then, the patient doesn’t feels his anesthesized part.
Clinical essays
Radiology
- Radiography: It has radiation. Medical image where the bones appear in white. Also, any foreign object usually appears inthe image, more bright than bones. The image is made with X-rays.
- Ecography: Imaging method free of radiation. The image is produced by sound waves.
- Computerized tomography: Imaging method with the highest radiation of the four methods. The image appears with high resolution.
- Resonance image: Imaging method free of radiation. The image is produced computing data obtained by the magnetization of the body.
Endoscopy
Endoscopy is a procedure in which a camera with a large cable is inserted in the body in order to see the interior of a cavity. It’s very useful to diagnose diseases.
- Colonoscopy:
- Cystoscopy:
- Ureteroscopy:
Cardiology
Exams
- Electrocardiogram (ECG): Device that gives a graph of the heart rate.
- Ecocardiography: Ecograph of the hearth.
- Angiography: Imaging method in which it’s seen all the blood vessels of the body.
Pulmonology
Neurology
Ophthalmology
Exams
Diseases
- Myopia: Disease in which distant objects are seen blurred.
- Farsightedness: Disease in which nearby objects are seen blurred.
- Astigmatism: Disease in which images are seen with a little of distortion.
Treatments
- Lasik surgery: Surgery that corrects myopia, farsightedness and astigmatism.
- Cataract surgery: Surgery that corrects cataracts.
Odontology
Exams
- Intraoral radiography: Radiography of all the teeth.
Procedures
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Treatments
- Dental filling: Medical treatment in which is added a solid material to a tooth, replacing the damaged part of it. Doing that the tooth stops causing pain.
- Orthodontics: Brackets that correct the misalignment of the teeth.
- Dental whitening: Medical treatment in which a material is used to whiten the teeth. It lasts some time and after that time it has to be done again.
- Dental crown: Artificial tooth implant that replaces a tooth being placed in top of it.
Gastroenterology
Nephrology
Urology
Gynecology
Sexual medicine
Gender reasignation to female
- Vaginoplasty:
Gender reasignation to male
- Phalloplasty: