I remember during my first year of med school, I spent several minutes searching my anatomy text for where the ipsilateral nerve was. My lab manual mentioned it and I didn't know where it was. Near the femoral nerve maybe?
Can anyone who isn't in medicine tell me where the ipsilateral nerve is?
It's weird how all these words that seemed so foreign to you as a student later become second nature. You don't even realize it until you're having a conversation with someone who isn't in medicine.
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ReplyDeleteNot in medicine, but have had enough anatomy to know what it means. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is one that a teacher can tell a student 1000 times, and still not have them get it.
lateral to the ips?
ReplyDeleteNot in medicine either, but I am a PhD student in neuroscience, so I know what it means.
ReplyDeleteHAH! That's awesome. I found myself forgetting the difference between the ilium and the ileum time and again.
ReplyDeletelol :p happens to everyone haha
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was in elementary school, I would always hear on the news about people getting 'shot at gunpoint.' It confused the hell out of me. I kept wondering why people would keep going to a place called 'gunpoint' if people kept dying there.
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ReplyDeleteI remember being _floored_ in med school when I finally realized that the heart has its own blood vessels to supply the muscle. Like, the blood being pumped through the heart chambers wasn't somehow also diffusing into the muscle.
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of ashamed at how little I knew, but everyone starts somewhere. :)
I'm Italian and for me is strange even to immagine how difficult must be for you learning all these names. We study greek and latin in high school, and italian is very close to latin so for us the meaning of such words is kind of natural...
ReplyDeletefor example superior, inferior and lateral in italian is superiore inferiore and laterale and we use them in the daylife like ypu do with upper and lower!
is that near the pudendal nerve?
ReplyDeleteNot in medicine, but a biology major. Was covered in neuroscience 101 and also in my 1-week class on brain anatomy.
ReplyDeleteA few of my classmates identified the spinal nerve as the "sensu stricto."
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