things i’ve learnt in m3 so far
1) cats have single pleural cavity (pneumothorax would be bad news)
2) elephants have no pleura
3) if it looks like a cow, then it is a cow. not a camel.
4) the cat’s clavicle does not articulate with any bone
yep, it floats embedded in muscle.
5) the thickest cartilage in the body is at the patella- 7mm of hyaline goodness
6) SGH has pretty HOs
7) lithopedion – “stone baby”. In an ectopic pregnancy where implantation occurs elsewhere (eg. fallopian tubes/peritoneal cavity) other than in the uterus, if the dead foetus is too large to be re-absorbed by the mother’s body it becomes a foreign body to the mother’s immune system. To protect itself from possible infection the mother’s body will encase the foetus in a calciferous substance as the tissues die and dehydrate.
As the calciferous wall builds up, the foetus is gradually mummified becoming a lithopedion. “stone baby”. Apparently , the oldest reported case is that of a 94 year old woman, where the lithopedion had been present for upwards of 60 years.
8) caterian pneumothorax from thoracic endometriosis - ectopic uterine tissue grows in the thoracic cavity, and every month during the period it bleeds (as normal uterine tissue does) and causes a pneumothorax and the lung collapses. hemoptysis is possible too, i guess you end up coughing up period blood which sounds pretty nasty.
okay typing of random trivia got slightly out of hand. note that there are no sources cited and the points are thus unreliable but i’m feeling lazy and am in a mood to believe.
left the hospital today for 3x 400m warm up, 5x 400m, 2x 800m, 2x 1200m. pretty nice night but i should be studying D: and actually doing more in hospitals. intestines still cramping after a hard run ): why are my bowel loops pretending to be a uterus? (an uterus?)
internal med is pretty content heavy!
