How to remember the difference between Wernicke's area and Broca's area

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We'll be learning about the Wernicke's area and Broca's areas of the cerebral cortex!

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What is Broca's area?
It is the motor speech area.
Motor? Yeah, it helps in movements required to produce speech.

What is Wernicke's area?
It is the sensory speech area.
Sensory? Yes, it helps you understand speech.
It also helps in usage of correct words to express our thoughts.

How to draw the tympanic membrane

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Here's the mnemonic kinda video for how to draw the tympanic membrane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jVkSQjxt18&feature=youtu.be

Difference between chronic atrophic gastritis type A and type B

What is chronic atrophic gastritis?
It is a process of chronic inflammation of the gastric mucosa.

What are the causes of chronic atrophic gastritis?
It can be caused by persistent infection with Helicobacter pylori, or can be autoimmune in origin.

Memorizing how to draw the nasal septum

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Here's a mnemonic kinda video for how to draw the nasal septum --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY9dwSDNTLQ

I've always had problems remembering the names of various bones and cartilages so I made a silly mnemonic for myself.

Darrow-Yannet Diagrams simplified

What are Darrow Yannet diagrams?
They are graphs that tell you the osmolarity and volume changes of body fluids.

X axis represents volume.
Y axis represents solute concentration.

Total body water = 2/3 ICF (Intracellular fluid) + 1/3 ECF  (Extracellular fluid)

Remember:
All volume disturbances originate in the ECF compartment.
Changes in ICF are in response to changes in ECF.

How to make the graph in your head -
Step 1. Figure out what happens to the osmolarity and volume in the ECF compartment (ECF is the smaller compartment)
Step 2. Think how is ICF affected?

Let's review some examples to make sure we understand the concept!

How to remember lipoprotein disorders

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Click here to read about Lipoproteins and apoproteins if you need a quick revision before we get started :)

In this blog post, I'll be talking about lipoprotein disorders, how to remember them and some facts that you need to know about the disorders.

What is the difference between prerenal failure & acute tubular necrosis?

What is prerenal failure?
Prerenal acute renal failure (ARF) occurs when a sudden reduction in blood flow to the kidney (renal hypoperfusion) causes a loss of kidney function.
In prerenal acute renal failure, there is nothing wrong with the kidney itself.

What is acute tubular necrosis?
Acute tubular necrosis is a kidney disorder involving damage to the tubule cells of the kidneys, which can lead to acute kidney failure.

What is the difference between prerenal failure & acute tubular necrosis?

Arteriovenous fistula - What happens to cardiac output and total peripheral resistance and why?

What is an AV fistula?

An arteriovenous fistula is an abnormal connection or passageway between an artery and a vein.

When an arteriovenous fistula is formed involving a major artery like the abdominal aorta, it can lead to a large decrease in peripheral resistance.

Why?

Medicowesome Flashcards 2 download

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Here is the link for the second set of flashcards -
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B47QBCwY_mUMYmZVbjdlMTlTU1k/edit?usp=sharing

Difference between iron deficiency anemia and anemia of chronic disease

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Sometimes simply reading doesn't help you get the difference..
So I made these notes to help you have a visual idea of the terms used while describing these diseases.

Medicowesome Flashcards 1 download

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The first set of flashcards are ready for download B)

I sorted them out in different folders in case you wish to study them separately ^_^
Personally, I like mixing them all together and recollecting random facts as they show up.. Gets tougher =D

Medicowesome flashcards

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I've been making flash cards for myself.
I've made them as images so that I can put it in my cellphone or tab and revise them while I'm traveling ^_^

Mechanism of action of antibiotics (Protein synthesis inhibitors mnemonic) - Part 2

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Like I promised, the modified mnemonic with a better diagram *drum roll*