Medical Lector

Get a quick glimpse of medicine, facts , concepts, quizzes, and interesting scenarios for all the medicos out there.

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Q 8: Which is the largest organ in the human body?
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#Funfact : Social smile: It's an important developmental milestone in babies. By about 2 months, babies begin to develop the smile that communicates their emotional experience of pleasure and contentment .
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Q7: What newborn reflex is shown in the picture? #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedStudentTwitter #MedicalLake #Medical

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Q6: Name the structures marked in the diagram? #MedicalLake #MedTwitter #MedX #medicine #MedicalStudents #Medical

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Q5: What's the most common cause of death worldwide? #MedTwitter #MedX #MedicalLake #MedicalStudents #medicine

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@GeoffScanlan That's right! 👏💐

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Q4: What's the structure shown in the diagram? #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedicalLake #MedX #Medical

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@GeoffScanlan yes, it is. What's it called?

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@GeoffScanlan Smart guess... Try again ...

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8/8: Fleming received many awards for his achievements. A recipient of some thirty honorary degrees. In 1945, he won the most prestigious award, the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine. Time Magazine named Fleming one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. #MedX

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History 1: “I did not invent penicillin. Nature did that. I only discovered it by accident.”:Alexander Fleming a Scottish physician-scientist, known for discovering penicillin, the antibiotic which saved millions of lives. 1/8 #medicine #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedX #History #Medical

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7/8: It was not until 1940, just as he was contemplating retirement, that 2 scientists, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, became interested in penicillin. In time, they were able to mass-produce it for use during World War II. #MedTwitter #medX #MedEd #MedicalLake #Medicine #History

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A2: Gallbladder, aka the cholecyst, is a small hollow pear-shaped organ beneath the liver, where bile is stored and concentrated before it is released into the small intestine.
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Q2: What's the structure in the diagram?
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Q3: Named after John Langdon Down, the British physician who described the syndrome for the first time in 1866 - Down Syndrome, is caused by trisomy of which chromosome? #MedTwitter #MedEd #MedicalStudents #Medical

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#Funfact The human body is made up of 30 to 40 trillion cells, and every day, about 300 billion cells are replaced daily, equivalent to about 1 percent of all our cells. In 80 to 100 days, 30 trillion will have replenished—the equivalent of a new you! #MedTwitter #MedEd #Medical