Marfan syndrome

The thing I learned today is that Marfan syndrome is a genetic disorder of the connective tissue, which may affect heart, lungs, eyes, spinal cord, and skeleton and cause a number of complications.  People with Marfan syndrome tend to be tall with long, slender fingers; if the fingers fold over the thumb and the thumb extends past the hand that is a sign of Marfan syndrome.  The disease is named after Antoine Marfan, a French pediatrician. 

Subluxation

The thing I learned today is the definition of the word subluxation, which means the dislocation of an organ or joint.  A vertebral subluxation is a vertebra out of place; a peroneal subluxation is dislocation of the ankle; etc.

Korotkoff sounds, named for a Russian physician who described them in1905, are what doctors listen for when measuring blood pressure.

MCAT

The MCAT, or Medical College Admissions test, is composed of four parts: Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems, Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems, Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior, and Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills

A neti pot is a device used to clear the nasal passage by causing a saline solution to flow through them. Older neti pots used spouts, while modern neti pots have bulb syringes.

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize for Medicine. He worked in hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy. He is noted for coining the term "chemotherapy," predicting autoimmune disorders, and developing the concept of the "magic bullet" to fight disease, as well as the first antibiotic drug. He used arsenic to fight syphilis.

Anna O was the pseudonym of Bertha Pappenheim, a patient of Austrian physician Josef Breuer, who diagnosed her with hysteria. Her case study was published in "Studies on Hysteria," written with Sigmund Freud.