APRIL FUN FACTS

Fun fact 1: Lingual lipase is actually produced in the fundus of the stomach, not the tongue! April food! Fun fact 2: Babies are given many sweet things in life but are denied of the sweetest thing known to mankind; they are kept put from honey because there is just an ever fearsome risk of botulism! Poor babies! Fun fact 3: Chocolate is loved by all. 'Chocolate cyst' is a disease. Now what's chocolate about a disease? Fun fact 4: Your tongue print is unique- just like your finger print! In case you want to lick the blood off that table, hey! You will rather be signing your very presence. Fun fact 5: 'Slapped cheek syndrome!' Imagine that name for a disease! Fun fact 6: Your brain matter is not sensitive to pain. Just where does all those headaches come from? Pain sensitive structures within the brain- blood vessels, meninges and what again dear? Fun fact 7: Rectal exam revealed a normal size thyroid! Fun fact 8: Niceness ca actually be a symptom - Williams syndrome! Do we need to say more? Rudeness of course is an evident symptom: Differentials somebody, Neuro..? Fun fact 9: Patient is not responding to treatment and yet declined an autopsy! Fun fact 10: The patient is a 79-year-old widow who no longer lives with her husband. Fun fact 11: Traditional doctors somewhere perform 'uvulectomy' on the child to enhance breastfeeding! Fun fact 12: 'Erythema toxicum!' Do you know the disease? Then do you know that there is 'nothing TOXIC' about it? Hahaha. Fun fact 13: Belly dancer's sign! Up and towards shifting of umbilicus in an ipsilateral unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis. Lol Fun fact 14: 'Cracked-pot note!' Ever heard the sound? Find an adult with hydrocephalus! Warning, the head will not be big; just go about percussing every of your adult friends head! Good luck. Fun fact 15: A disease can 'teach' one to 'dance!' Chorea: Huntington, Sydenham, gravidarum, drug induced, Wilson, prion, Neuroacanthosis.... Fun fact 16: Do you know that there are first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth diseases? Now isn't that the order in which they were....Anybody who tells us the reason for their numbering gets a reward. Share with your friends today, now, please. Let's make it interactive. Fun fact 17: Submersion into ice for patients! Think of any indication? Diagnosis of cold agglutinins! Fun fact 18: Is there no form of disorder we would see! Binge Eating Disorder!!! Fun fact 19: Tetralogy of Fallot in most cases, is actually pentalogy! Fun fact 20: Job in the Bible, you know his medical ailment? Then consider Job syndrome- Hyper IgE syndrome. Nobody asked devil though! When we get to heaven we verify! Fun fact 21: Coma is pseudodeath. Do you know that there is pseudocoma? Locked-in syndrome of the basilar artery! Fun fact 22: Pins syndrome! Is there no form of syndrome there will exist. Wait for the name of the syndrome you'll hear tomorrow. Meanwhile you know any syndrome? Fun fact 23: Cold chest syndrome! We promised you an awkward syndrome this day! Fun fact 24: Wow! Wow! Wow! Parasitosis! Parasitosis! Parasitosis! And there is no parasite! Delusional Parasitosis! Wittmaack-Ekbom syndrome! Fun fact 25: Do you know of the disorder 'Messiah Complex?' Then are you one? Do you also know that it is not listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorders? Does this mean it is not a diagnosis considering that you are a possibly chronic patient? Fun fact 26: Berries. Something beautiful. Berry aneurysm, a harrowing time bomb! Why a good name for a bad dog? Fun fact 27: Gravidity and Parity are conventionally used to state the reproductive achievements of a woman. Now, someone tell us how to represent: 1) Molar pregnancy. What is the gravidity of a woman with PSEUDOCYESIS? LOL! Fun fact 28: Soldiers disease! Guess what it is. Morphine addiction! Fun fact 29: Oh! the many uses of gold: first a precious metal, then a drug! Gold is used to treat arthritis!Fun fact 30: Do live in a castle, then beware of Castleman's disease with its onion skinning and lollipop sign. Oh! Here wraps up the diamond month. Let us look forward to the May Flowers especially from Mary. Represent your field of knowledge. Send in fun facts from your field to: lifelineunec@gmail.com or lifeline.unec@facebook.com