Reflexology: Hand Frontside Chart

Press with thumb for 5 seconds & release for 3 seconds,
in the affected point.
Repeat for 2-3 minutes,
for 5 to 10 days. you will get relief...

Parainfluenza viruses

                                                  Common Cold

• A group of large RNA-containing viruses that cause infections of the respiratory tract producing mild influenza-like symptoms.
• They are included in the paramyxovirus group. ( Search mxyovirus )

• Sore Throat Due to Inflammation

  Causes

  The common cold is caused by a virus. There are over 200 different viruses that can cause a cold, including:

  • Rhinovirus
  • Corona virus
  • Adenovirus
  • Coxsackie virus
  • Paramyxovirus
  • Parainfluenza virus
  • Respiratory syncytial virus

  Risk

  A risk factor is something that increases your chance of getting a disease or condition.

  Risk factors for a cold are:

  • Being near someone who has a cold
  • Touching your nose, mouth, or eyes with contaminated fingers
  • Having allergies (lengthens duration of cold)
  • Smoking or being near cigarette smoke (due to decreased resistance)
  • Stress (due to decreased resistance)
  • Sex: female (especially around menstrual periods)

  Symptoms

  Symptoms include:

  • Sore or scratchy throat
  • Stuffy nose (hard to breathe through your nose)
  • Runny nose
  • Sneezing
  • Itchy, stuffed sensation in the ears
  • Watery eyes
  • Slight cough
  • Headache
  • Aches and pains
  • Low energy
  • Low-grade fever

Nitric Oxide

Nitric Oxide

• An important member of the group of gaseous mediators, which - together with amine mediators ( e.g. adrenaline, noradrenaline, histamine, acetylcholine ) and lipid mediators ( e.g. prostaglandins ) - produce many physiological responses ( e.g smooth muscle relaxation ).
• Nitric oxide is involved in the manifestations of sepsis and septic shock.
• Formula NO

Somatostatin ( growth-hormone-release inhibiting factor )

• A hormone, produced by the hypothalamus and some extraneural tissues, including the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas ( search islets of Langerhans ), that inhibits growth hormone ( somatotrophin ) released by the pituitary gland.
• Both growth-hormone releasing hormone and somatostatin are controlled by complex neural mechanisms related to sleep rhythms, stress, neurotransmitters, blood glucose and exercise.
• Its inhibitory effect on gastrointestinal secretions is used to reduce flow from fistula from the pancreas or bowel to the body surface.
• Its effect on reducing abdominal blood flow is used to reduce bleeding from oesophageal varices.
• Somatostatin analogues are used to treat acromegaly, caused by over production of growth hormone, and to relieve the symptoms caused by hormone-secreting neuroendocrine tumours.
• They include lanreotide ( Somatuline ) and octreotide ( Sandostatin ).

Lymphangioma

cystic hygroma

• A localized collection of distended lymphatic vessels, which may result in a large cyst in the neck or arm pit ( cystic hygroma ).
• This can be removed surgically.

Buphthalmos ( Hydrophthalmos )

• Infantile or congenital glaucoma : increased pressure within the eye due to a defect in the development of the tissue through which fluid drains from the eye.
• Since the outer coat (sclera) of the eyeball of children is distensible, the eye enlarges as the inflow of fluid continues.
• It usually affects both eyes and may accompany congenital abnormalities in other parts of the body.
• Treatment is by surgical operation, eg goniotomy, to improve drainage of fluid from the eye.
• Spontaneous arrest of buphthalmos may occur before vision is completely lost.

Inverse proportion

• Also called as inverse ratio.
• A relation between two quantities such that one increases in proportion as the other decreases.

Coronary arteries

• The arteries supplying blood to the heart.
• The right and left coronary arteries arise from the aorta, just above the aortic valve, and form branches encircling the heart.
• Search for coronary angioplasty, coronary bypass graft.

Photojournalism

• The use of photographs to give news.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, chronic obstructive airways disease)

• A disease of adults, especially those over the age of 45 with a history of smoking or inhalation of airborne pollution.
• The disease has features of emphysema and chronic bronchitis.
• It is diagnosed when the forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) is less than 60% of the predicted value for the patients age and height and the patient does not respond to steroid drugs or bronchodilators.
• In comparison to asthma, there is less response to inhaled corticosteroids, which may only be indicated for patients with frequent excerbations.

illuminate

• Light up.
• Help to explain or make clear: he illuminates science for the interested reader.
• Decorate (a manuscript) with gold, silver, or coloured designs.

Lipochondrodystrophy

• Other names - (Hurler's Syndrome; Pfaundler-Hurler Syndrome; Lipochondrodystrophy; Hurler-Scheie Syndrome; Mucopolysaccharidosis V; Scheie's Syndrome)
• Multiple congenital defects affecting lipid (fat) metabolism, cartilage and bone, skin, and the major internal organs, leading to mental retardation, dwarfism, and deformities of the bones.
• Systemic lysosomal storage disease caused by a deficiency of alpha-L-iduronidase (iduronidase) and characterized by progressive physical deterioration with urinary excretion of dermatan sulfate and HEPARAN SULFATE.

Crease

Cricket Pitch

• A line or ridge produced on paper or cloth by folding or pressing.
• Cricket - any of a number of lines marked on the pitch at specified places
• Creased up- Burst out laughing.

International Classification of Diseases ( ICD )

• A list of all known diseases and syndromes, including mental and behavioural disorders, published by the World Health Organisation every ten years ( approximately ). 
• Over the years the classification has moved from being disease-oriented to include a wider frame-work of illness and other health problems.
• The latest version, ICD-10 was published in 1992 and employs alphanumeric coding.
• It is used in many countries as the principal means of classifying both mortality and morbidity experience and allows comparison of morbidity and mortality rates nationally and internationally.
• A parallel list, the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities and Handicaps ( ICIDH ), has also been compiled and is being used experimentally.

Dandified

• (of a man) too concerned about personal appearance.

Charcot-Leyden crystals

Charcot-Leyden crystals

• Charcot-Leyden crystals are microscopic crystals found in people who have allergic diseases such as asthma or parasitic infections such as parasitic pneumonia or ascariasis.
• They vary in size and may be as large as 50 µm in length. Charcot-Leyden crystals are slender and pointed at both ends, consisting of a pair of hexagonal pyramids joined at their bases. Normally colorless, they are stained purplish-red by trichrome. They consist of lysophospholipase, an enzyme synthesized by eosinophils, and are produced from the breakdown of these cells.
• They are indicative of a disease involving eosinophilic inflammation or proliferation, such as is found in allergic reactions and parasitic infections.Charcot-Leyden crystals are often seen pathologically in patients with bronchial asthma.
• Fine colourless sharp-pointed crystals seen in the sputum of asthmatics.
• J.M Charkot (1825-93). French neurologist;
•  E.V Von Leyden (1832-1919), German physician.

Vein

Structure of Vein

• A blood vessel conveying blood towards the heart.
• All veins except pulmonary vein carry deoxygenated blood from the tissues, via the capilaries, to the vena cava.
• The walls of veins consist of three tissue layers, but these are much thinner and less elastic than those of arteries.
• Veins contain valve that assist the flow of blood back to the heart.
• Anatomical name : Vena

Sweetie

• Brit. A sweet.
• Used as a term of affection.

Half-timbered

17th Century half-timbered house in Gardelegen

• (of a building) having walls with a timber frame and a brick or plaster filling.