Medical Terms

Psy­che­del­ic Drugs (Hal­lu­cino­gens) These drugs change one’s behav­iour thoughts ‚feel­ings and per­cep­tion with­out any actu­al sen­so­ry stim­u­lus.  The hal­lu­cino­gens in gen­er­al pro­duces dream like state with the dis­ori­en­ta­tion and often make users of SEE SOUND AND HEAR COLOUR. These are also called VISION PRODUCING DRUGS as they pro­duce false imag­i­na­tions or extreme feel­ing of either … Read more

Drug is any sub­stance or prod­uct that is used or is intend­ed to be used to mod­i­fy or explore phys­i­o­log­i­cal sys­tem or patho­log­i­cal states for the ben­e­fit of the recip­i­ent. Drugs are nor­mal­ly used as med­i­cine to help patients cope with men­tal ill­ness like depres­sion , insom­nia and so on. But when drugs ard tak­en … Read more

Aller­gies Aller­gy is the Hyper­sen­si­tive­ness of a per­son to some for­eign sub­stance com­ing in con­tact with or enter­ing the body. Aller­gens = The sub­stance that cause aller­gic reac­tion are called aller­gens. The com­mon aller­gens are dust, pollen, mould, spores, fab­rics , lip­sticks, nail paints, feath­ers, fur, plants, bac­te­ria, foods , heat, cold sun­light. Symp­toms = The … Read more

We know that trans­mis­sion of sig­nals from nerve to mus­cle is affect­ed by acetyl­choline or neu­ro­trans­mit­ter sub­stance. sim­i­lar­ly neu­ron to neu­ron trans­mis­sion is also achieved by acetyl­choline. In addi­tion to acetyl­choline There are sev­er­al oth­er by chem­i­cal that func­tion as neu­ro trans­mit­ter. A lim­it­ed num­ber have already been iden­ti­fy and news one are being iden­ti­fied. … Read more

There are two main types of blood ves­sels in the cir­cu­la­to­ry sys­tem artery and veins with char­ac­ter­is­tic dif­fer­ences among them. Artery have rel­a­tive­ly thick walls that con­sist of heavy strong lay­er of Elas­tic fibres and smooth mus­cles. As the artery is branch the diam­e­ter becomes small­er and the rel­a­tive amount of mus­cle tis­sue increas­es in … Read more

The term pub­lic health is coined from two dif­fer­ent terms, “pub­lic” and “Health”. The term pub­lic has sev­er­al mean­ing and con­no­taions such as com­mu­ni­ty. Civic “Munic­i­pal”, “Free”, “open”, “Unre­strict­ed”. The term pub­lic is also under­stood as some­thing “not pri­vate”. If we look at the oth­er term “Health”. It is one of the most dif­fi­cult tems … Read more

Food Pro­vide ener­gy and nutri­ents like car­bo­hy­drates, fats and pro­teins essen­tial for liv­ing organisms.The flow of ener­gy in the ecosys­tem is linked close­ly to the nutri­ents flow in it.This means that chem­i­cal ener­gy in the form of Car­bo­hy­drates ‚fat ‚pro­tein and oth­er nutri­ents get trans­ferred to consumers.Nutrient cycle through the ecosys­tem and the ener­gy with­in … Read more