Food for Thought
The "Eyes" have It
What's in a Name
Then, not so Much Now
The "nth" Degree
100
Wrestlers, boxers, and angry drunks beware, this is a deformity that results after repeated trauma to the side of the head. Not a vegetable roasted and served with parmesan cheese.
What is cauliflower ear?
100
The surgical modification of the eyelid.
What is Blepharoplasty?
100
Known as 'gamer's thumb,' washerwoman's sprain,' and mother's wrist, this painful tenosinovitis located near the radial styloid was named after the Swiss Surgeon.
What is De Quervain's Syndrome?
100
The prosthetic limb of choice for pre-civil war amputees and pirates who want to get their hobble on. Or, a crudely crafted piece of wood attached to the remnant leg.
What is a "pegleg?"
100
Recommended angle of fusion of the second through fifth PIP Joint
What is 40, 45, 50 and 55 degrees?
200
Relatively common reddish purple birthmark caused by a collection of swollen blood vessels near the surface of the skin. Can be removed with laser treatments or 'sported proudly.' You go Mikhail Gorbachev!
What is a port wine stain?
200
Chronic inflammation of the eyelid usually involving the area near the lashes associated with malfunction of their associated oil glands.
What is Blepharitis?
200
This microscopically controlled surgery is used to treat common types of skin cancer. It is one method of obtaining complete circumferential peripheral and deep margin assessment using frozen section histology.
What is Moh's Surgery?
200
Their first documented use for medical purposes dates bad to the time of Hippocrates. But advocates of this segmented worm to achieve health and balance been included the ancient Greek, Roman, and Chinese provers of medicine.
What are leeches?
200
Normal scapholunate angle range
What is 30-60 degrees?
300
May appear on any part of the body, these red lesions composed of tightly packed blood vessels develop shortly after birth, grow rapidly, then recede by 7 to 9 years of life. Not the popular ingredient of this daiquiri.
What is a strawberry hemangioma?
300
An upper eyelid condition characterized by redundant folds of skin, ptosis resulting from recurrent episodes of painless swelling eyelid swelling. Thought to be a form of localized angioedema
What is Blepharochalasis?
300
This is a condition of the wrist produced by a growth disturbance in the inferior volar part of the epiphysial growth plate in the distal radius that results in the radius growing curved in the volar direction producing volar translation of the hand and wrist.
What is Madelung's Deformity?
300
This was the most common medical practice performed by doctors for antiquity to the late 19th century. It purportedly balanced the bodies humors curing or preventing illnesses. It is now only used in specific conditions such as hemochromatosis, polycythemia vera, and porphyria cutanea tarda where the volume of RBCs need to be reduced.
What is blood letting?
300
The normal angle between the ear and head
What is less than 30 degrees?
400
French for 'coffee with milk', they are light-brown birthmarks which are associated with many diseases such as tuberous sclerosis, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, and can aid in the diagnosis of Neurofibromatosis I (NF-1).
What is a Cafe' au Lait Spot?
400
Rare focal dystonia characterized by uncontrolled twitching of the eyelids. Cause is unknown but thought to be associated with fatigue, stress, or irritants. Treated with magnesium chloride supplements, botox injections, or, in extreme cases protractor myectomy.
What is Blepharospasm?
400
This is an idiopathic vasospastic disorder causing discoloration of the fingers, toes, and occasionally other areas. Named after French physician.
What is Raynaud's Phenomenon?
400
This random pattern flap is elevated from one lower extremity and transposed onto the contralateral lower extremity for limb coverage and salvage. It has been supplanted by advances such and local muscle tissue transposition and microvascular tissue transplantation.
What is a cross-leg flap?
400
The normal Total Active Motion (TAM) of a finger
What is 260 degrees?
500
A term used to describe the dimpled texture of skin seen in disorders such as inflammatory breast cancer, pseudoxanthoma elastica or myxedema of Grave's disease. Literally means 'skin of an orange.'
What is Paeu d'orange Skin?
500
Condition characterized by bilateral ptosis, reduced lid size, flattened nasal bridge, hypo plastic orbital rims and epicanthus inverses.
What is Blepharophimosis?
500
This is a connective tissue disorder characterized by inflammation of the tunica albugunea. It can be associated with cord like contractors of the hand and feet. It is named after The disease is named after an eighteenth century French surgeon, Francois Gigot de La Peyronie.
What is Peyronies Disease?
500
It was the ultimate painkiller, prescribed for a variety of mundane ailments ranging from depression to headaches. Freud was a big fan of this nose candy. In the 80's, it was the preferred party favor at Club 54.
What is cocaine?
500
In cephalometric analysis the normal angle represented by the Sella - Nasion - A point or SNA. Above this range the maxilla is prognathic, below this range the maxilla is retrognothic
What is 82 + or - 5 degrees?
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