Articles [Medicine & Surgery]

sternocleidomastoid: Origin: It has 2 heads.one is the clavicular head and other is the sternal head.The sternal head is tendinous in origin and it arises from the suprolateral part of the front of manubrium sternum. Clavicular  head is...

OTIC GANGLION: *  It is the peripheral parasympathetic ganglion which relay its secretomotor fibres to the parotid ganglion. *  Topographically it is related to mandibular nerve but functionally it is a part of glossopharyngeal nerve. *   It has...

EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLES: The extraocular muscles include voluntary muscles and involuntary muscles . The voluntary muscles are as follows Superior rectus Inferior rectus Medial rectus Lateral rectus Superior oblique Inferior oblique...

Treating a patient with diverticulitis varies with the severity of symptoms, duration of disease, associated diseases and immune status of your system. Fortunately, most episodes of diverticulitis are mild or moderate, peridiverticulitis presented...

Faced with an acute episode of sigmoid diverticulitis of moderate severity, we consider some differential diagnosis. The functional or irritable colon, associated with fever from another source, represents the main differential diagnosis. The...

Diabetes is not a disease but a syndrome, which should be individualized within the various nosological entities. The common link of all these is hyperglycemia and its consequences, also called specific complications that are common to all forms of...

The liver is the most active organ of our body and it is in the liver that most of the important processes of the body take place, when nutrients enter the body, the liver receives them first; then it metabolizes, packages, stores, or ships...

To do any exercise correctly you need to know which muscles are involved and the movements they perform. Anatomically locating these structures allows us to identify opposing forces and how to use them to benefit our fitness routine. When...

Mediastinum: The space between the two lungs in the thoracic cavity where the heart is located. It is surrounded by Anteriorly: Sternum Posteriorly: Vertebral column Superiorly: Thoracic cavity Inferiorly: Diaphragm Sternum: It is the flat...

HEMIAZYGOYS VEIN: It is called INFERIOR AZYGOUS VEIN  because it is the mirror image of the lower part of the   azygous vein. formation: it is either from the left renal vein or by the union of left ascending lumbar and left subclavian...