Day 24 - WOW!

Well ....I survived four test in four different classes this week and next week should be extra special with 3 test in one class alone - ie, Anatomy.

Here are some things I learned from our prosector, Frankie, today.  

Cranial Nerve CN II is responsible for brain freeze - the appendix actually does have a function, there are 6 teres in the body.  pudendal is derived from the Latin, pudere, which means to be ashamed of or embarresing.  

People have pudendal arteries running behind their knees.  Vice President Dick Chaney had an embolism or maybe it was anurisms in those arteries in both of his legs ...as well as a pace-maker, quadruple bipass and defibrilator for his heart.  

Speaking of Dick - we have Tom, Dick and Harry in Anatomy, which stands for Tibialis Posterior, Flexor Digitorum Longus an Hallucis Longus (the 'an' stand for an Artery and Nerve)

Flexor Digitorum Longus, i.e. Dick - is a Dick for four reasons - 

1.  He's the closest in origin to an actual dick - medially speaking

2.  He crosses over Tom

3.  He has an extra muscle (quadratus  plantae which makes him greedy)

4.  He has worms - lumbricals.  

vaso vasorum is the term given to larger arteries which have arteries of their own - in other words some of our arteries are of such magnitude that they need their own blood supply from arteries

 - some arteries have their own artery supply. ...vaso vasorum

plenty of little things were clarified today - we have muscles called Peroneus Longus and Peroneus Brevis and then there's a Peroneus Tertius but it didn't occur to me when I was learning the muscles originally that the prefix tert was for tertiary which would mean the third in a series of peroneus muscles.  

and when your leg falls asleep it's due to pressure on the common peroneal nerve as opposed to when your thigh might fall asleep - a condition known as parastesia (something like that) which is from sciatic interference.  

Philosophy was amazing today - 

Put a brick in a bucket of water and the water rises.  Step into a tub filled with water and the water rises.  Now, step into a 300 acre lake and the water would still rise but the change would be imperceptible to us, we wouldn't be able to perceive the change.

Our body and whatever abuses we incur to our body are a lot like jumping into that 300 acre lake - the changes tend to be imperceptible and aren't anything we'd notice on a day to day basis but, matter has limitations and eventually we would notice the ill effects of poor health care.  

I have to study - we have two regions of the body that we're being tested over next week in Anatomy along with our Midterm on Friday (also in Anatomy)

ToodleS! & Pars Interarticularis :)   hehehe