Biology
- Schizophrenia
Term: Schizophrenia Origin: Greek from ???????/skhizein (=to split) + ????/phren (= mind) meaning "split mind". Coined: The name coined by Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), a Swiss psychiatrist in 1911, from the early observation that the illness...
- Coeliac Disease
Term : coeliac (disease) Origin: Ancient Greek coelia> kilia(=belly) Coined: by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2th cen AD) as kiliakos. Later Samuel Jones Gee (1839 ? 3 1911) an English physician in 1888, published the first complete modern description...
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- Thinking Skinny Thoughts Won?t Help
Biology concepts ? undulipodia, primary cilia, chemosensing, obesity, depression, hydrocephalus, lithium Winston Churchill once said that men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most people pick themselves up and carry on as if nothing had happened....
- Biological Fusion Energy
Biology Concepts ? mitochondrial dynamics Stars are the largest fusion reactors around, and organisms do use some of the energy our Sun produces by joining two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom - remember photosynthesis? Fission reactors are closer...
Biology
chorea or choreia
Term: Chorea or chorea
Origin: Anc Greek ??????/choreia (=dance) since large groups of muscles are usually involved lead to writhing dancing movement.
Coined: at least since the 16th century.
Definition:
A eurological disorder that is characterised by involuntary movements. Chorea is caused by overactivity of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the areas of the brain that control movement.
Comments:
?????????????????????????????????????? Chorea is one of the major symptom of genetic degenerative disorder Huntington?s Chorea (described by George Huntington in 1872). Huntington?s Chorea previously was known as St Vitos?s dance. ?
?Physician , spoke of Chorea Santi Viti while lay people adopted literal translation. The name derived from the frenzied mass dancing in the aftermath of European plague epidemics in the 14th, 15th and 16 th centuries. Apart from these epidemics, sufferers from anxiety made annual June pilgrimages(June 15) to the chapel of St Vitus where the danced and danced until their symptoms disappeared: the dance in short, was both the disease and cure. The most common sort of St Vatu?s dance was childhood disease (Sydenham?s chorea) that usually went away on its own.
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- Schizophrenia
Term: Schizophrenia Origin: Greek from ???????/skhizein (=to split) + ????/phren (= mind) meaning "split mind". Coined: The name coined by Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), a Swiss psychiatrist in 1911, from the early observation that the illness...
- Coeliac Disease
Term : coeliac (disease) Origin: Ancient Greek coelia> kilia(=belly) Coined: by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2th cen AD) as kiliakos. Later Samuel Jones Gee (1839 ? 3 1911) an English physician in 1888, published the first complete modern description...
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- Thinking Skinny Thoughts Won?t Help
Biology concepts ? undulipodia, primary cilia, chemosensing, obesity, depression, hydrocephalus, lithium Winston Churchill once said that men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most people pick themselves up and carry on as if nothing had happened....
- Biological Fusion Energy
Biology Concepts ? mitochondrial dynamics Stars are the largest fusion reactors around, and organisms do use some of the energy our Sun produces by joining two hydrogen atoms into a helium atom - remember photosynthesis? Fission reactors are closer...