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Wow AI Tools for Transcription: Converting Audio into Text without Much Effort

noreply@blogger.com (Varudeep) — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:16:00 +0000

In today’s accelerated digital era, transforming audio and video content into written text has developed more crucial than ever. Whether you're a student, content creator, journalist, or any business professional, transcription helps to make information easier to access, easy to find and reuse. This is where AI-powered transcription tools are making a big difference.

AI transcription tools are using advanced automated voice-to-text technology to instantly convert any spoken language into words. No like traditional manual typing transcription i.e. that can be time-consuming and also expensive method, but AI tools give a faster and more cost-effective solutions with greater very accurate results.

How AI Transcription Tools Make Life Easier?

One of the most advantageous aspect of of AI transcription tools is its swift execution. A one-hour audio job file can be converted into words in just a few minutes of time. This is extremely helpful for those who regularly handle meetings, interviews, podcasts, or lectures. And another key use is its affordability. Many AI tool companies give free schemes or low-cost membership plans, and so making them reachable to individuals and small business ventures. In addition to this, these artificial intelligence tools often come with useful features such as speaker detection, timestamps, and editing options.

Key Functionalities to Consider

While selecting an AI tool for transcription, there are many important factors to consider:

Accuracy: Many transcription AI tools with high-quality features that can achieve up to 90–95% accuracy, depending on clarity of any audio.
Multi-language support: Some AI tools also can transcribe multiple languages, which is a useful feature for users in the global level.
Real-time transcription: This feature is very useful for live meetings, webinars, or classes.
Editing tools: Many AI transcription tools are equipped with built-in editors to allow quick fixing of errors and format and or text.
Export options: Users can also have the ability to download transcripts in whatever formats they like either TXT, DOCX, or PDF.

Key Applications: AI transcription tools can be used across different industries:

Students when use AI tools they can easily transform their teacher lectures into notes.
Online content creators can transcribe their videos for adding subtitles and search engine optimization purpose.
Companies record and transcribe their official meetings to make them better useful documents.
Journalists can use them to swiftly change interviews into well-written articles.

A Few Drawbacks to Consider: When we feel AI transcription tools are taking our way of manual transcription, they are not suitable. Accuracy will drop if the sound has background noise, strong accents, or multiple people speaking at the same time, and so it’s been always a good idea to review and edit the final transcription work. At the same time, privacy is also another concern. Some AI tools save the audio files on cloud servers, so it is crucial to select proper platforms that can prioritize data for security.

Advancements Shaping Transcription: As AI technological tools continue to emerge day by day, transcription tools are achieving higher accuracy with enhanced features. Future development of transcription may include better emotion identification, improved understanding of context, and effortless integration with other productivity tools.

Conclusion: AI tools for transcription are revolutionizing the way we handle audio and video content. They save our time, reduce money spending, and enhance efficiency across multiple domains. By selecting the exact proper equipment and applying it effectively, any user can turn any spoken words into valuable written transcribed content very easily.

If you’re looking to optimize your workflow and enhance content accessibility, AI transcription tools are well worth exploring.

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After Years...

noreply@blogger.com (Varudeep) — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

Hi Viewers and Followers,

I am posting after a very long years of gap. Planning more blogging in this blog in the future time. Thank you for your support in those old years and expecting the same in the coming future.

Thank you.

Common Disease Conditions of Skin

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:05:00 +0000

This post is dedicated knowing something about some abnormal conditions of the skin. We will see one by one now.

Eczema is also known as atopic dermatitis.

Impetigo is a skin infection type, which has a quality of spreading and which causes itching and crusted sores. The common cause of impetigo is Strep or Staph.

Folliculitis is an abnormal condition of inflammation of hair follicles.

A furuncle or a boil is a deep solitary abscess.

Acne may be in the form of a comedone, papule, pustule, or a cyst, which are all manifestations of acne.

Hirsutism is an abnormal condition where a person with a lot of body hair.

Cellulitis is nothing, but a localized soft tissue infection with swelling, redness, pain, and fever.

Athlete's foot is also called as tinea pedis.

Shingles is also known as herpes zoster.

Vitiligo forms patches of depigmentation widely distributed over the skin of a person due to the destruction of pigment cells.

An albino is a person who is unable to produce any pigment cells in his body.

The three most common skin cancers are malignant melanoma, basal cell carcinoma (BCC), and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC).

In the next post we will see more abnormal conditions of skin. Okay.

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Skin Tests to Identify a Disease Condition

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 16:38:00 +0000

After so many months of 'rest mode', I am updating free medical transcription course blog for our readers and followers. This post is specially dedicated to knowing something about tests done to identify a skin condition of the disease.

The title of the post may be good if it is 'Integumentary Lab', but for the simplicity of understanding, I have given the title as above.

A screening test for skin is performed on a patient who is healthy.

A wood light is an ultraviolet lamp, under which certain fungi of the skin or hair fluoresce.

KOH or potassium hydroxide prep is used to culture any fungal material collected from the skin.

The Mantoux tuberculin skin test or a TST test is to be done to detect tuberculosis (TB) in a patient.

Tzanck test or Tzanck smear is done to detect any viral infection from vesicular or bullous diseases.

Blood is used to culture for identifying cellulitis in a patient.

Diascope is a small flat piece of clear glass or plastic that is pressed firmly against the skin to differentiate capillary distillation from other causes.

Mites may be shown in a microscopic examination of scrapings from scabies lesions.

To identify any specific antibodies in patients radioallergosorbent testing is done.

Ringworm is caused by a fungus material.

Genital herpes is caused by herpes virus type 2.

Warts are formed by a virus named human papillomavirus.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogen that commonly causes wound and burns infections.

That's all.

In the next post, we will see some common medicines that are used to treat skin diseases. Okay.

Current Trend in Medical Transcription Jobs

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:23:00 +0000

In the last 10 years, medical transcription industry jobs have been reducing compared to the last few years back. The main reason for this is voice recognition technology is growing day by day as well as companies are reducing comparatively less job flow because of alternative database management methods such as partial dictations etc.

This change I personally could feel in the last 5 years. If I resign my job for any reasons such as increased salary or any other reasons I could get another medical transcription job easily in 10 days' time, but nowadays getting a new job in transcription field is getting tougher compared to a few years back trend.

When I joined as a medical transcription trainee in an institution in Tamilnadu in 2006, companies were asking 98% as the accuracy score level to pass as a trainee to promote live production to a worker. This accuracy score in a few years had increased to 98.5, and now it is increased to 99.5 in some leading companies.

Accuracy metrics differ company by company. Some companies calculate accuracy based on total lines and some companies calculate total number of files. Though their expectation level of passing score is increasing year by year. This makes the survival rate decrease of average worker.

When I joined as a trainee in 2006 the average price per line in India was about more or less the same as of today though all other industries are growing in balance in the wage level.

When we are accustomed to work as a medical transcriptionist gradually our interest level would increase day by day though we are made in a situation to work in a stressful situation and though we love this job as a career.

The Longest Medical Word

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:25:00 +0000

Today, we will know about an interesting medical term in medical language. This post is just to know about a different thing in the medical language, though this word is used very rarely in our day-to-day medical transcription work. The longest medical word is "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"!!!!!.

Can you read at least Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. Now, we will see the meaning of this word. To know the meaning shall we split the word by word. Okay.

1. Pneumono

2. Ultramicrosopic

3. Silico

4. Volcano

5. Conosis.

So, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis comprises of 5 medical words and in combination, they give a meaning of a certain kind of disease condition related to lungs. Now, we will see the meaning of each to get the combined understanding of the longest medical word.

Pneumono means lungs, ultramicroscopic - means minute, silico means silicon, volcano means eruption, and conosis means abnormal condition of cone shaped. The whole word can be understood in short as silicosis. It means ccupational lung disease formed because of inhalation of crystalline silica dust.

In the next post, we will see about some other important thing in the medical transcription business. Okay.

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Parts of Speech - Noun, Pronoun, Verb, and Adverb - A Medical Transcriptionist Must Know.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:32:00 +0000

Grammar is very crucial in any language. A medical transcriptionist must be well-versed in his language skills i.e. writing skills. This unavoidable skill needs specialized knowledge in English grammar apart from strong listening skills and medical language skills, computer operating skills, and fast typing skills are of having secondary importance to be a successful medical transcription professional.

In this post, we will see about basic parts of speech in English, such as,

1. NOUN.

2. PRONOUN.

3. VERB.

4. ADVERB.

We will see about one by one now.

1. Noun - A noun is used to denote a name of a person, animal, place, of a inhuman thing in the universe. For example,

1. John is a name that denotes a boy.

2. Dog is a name that specifies an animal.

3. San Diego is mentioned to denote a place.

4. Stone is denoted to specify an inhuman thing.

Further read about NOUN

2. Pronoun: In a language, pronoun is used to specify any type of noun i.e. a person, thing, place, or a plant, animal etc. For example, if John is specified in a sentence, the next time his name can be identified when uses HE as a pronoun. In this way, HE, SHE, IT, I, YOU, WE, SOME, EACH, EITHER, NEITHER etc., are the pronouns used instead of a noun in a sentence, and so they are all collectively termed as PRONOUN.

Further read about PRONOUN

3. Verb: In a sentence, each ACTION part is identified by using VERB. Action is nothing, but a condition of a subject in a sentence. For example, run, go, come, read, hit etc.

Further read about VERB

4. Adverb: An ADVERB is used in a sentence to change or modify an action or verb, or an adjective, or may be another adverb is called as adverb. For example, swiftly (speedily), today, regularly, although, again etc.

Further read about ADVERB

In the next post, we will see about other important Parts of Speech items, such as Adjective, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection. Okay.

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25 Important Medical Transcription Slangs and Terms

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:35:00 +0000

This post is about 25 Important Medical Transcription Slangs and Terms.

1. Bili - Bilirubin

2. Fluoro - Fluoroscope

3. Retic - Reticulocyte

4. Chem - Chemistry

5. Echo - Echocardiogram

6. Primip - Primipara (first pregnancy)

7. Cysto - Cysto means urinary bladder

8. Dc'd - Discontinued

9. Trach - Tracheostomy

10. Dig (dij) - Digoxin

11. Coag - Coagulation rate

12. Fib - Fibers

13. Ca (CA) - Calcium

14. Procto - Proctodaeum (Inward fold on the surface of the embryonic ectoderm)

15. Lytes - Electrolytes

16. Cath - Catheter

17. Mets - Metastasis

18. Diff - Differential

19. Nitro - Nitroglycerine

20. Peds - Pediatrics

21. 'crit - Hematocrit

22. Lap chole - Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

23. Meds - Medications

24. tic - Sudden and uncontrolled small movement of the face

25. Multip - Multiple

In the next post, we will see about important urological terms. Okay.

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8 Important Gastrointestinal Medical Terms and Definitions

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 03:16:00 +0000

This free medical transcription course post explains 8 important medical terms that are used on a daily basis when processing live transcription files as a daily job.

1. Deglutition: The process of swallowing food materials is known as deglutition.

2. Dysphagia: An abnormal condition of difficulty of swallowing of food stuffs by a person.

3. Nasal Regurgitation: Back flow of food material from the stomach to the nose.

4. Bolus: Food mixed with salivary juice while chewing food.

5. Chyme: Partially digested food material inside the mouth is called chyme.

6. Achalasia Cardia: Inability of lower esophageal sphincter to relax.

7. Orifice: Opening.

8. Pneumonitis: Inflammation of the walls of the air sacs or alveoli in the lungs.

In the next post, we will study about important 20 gastrointestinal medical terms. To go to the prior post CLICK here.

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Fifth Vital Signs

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:23:00 +0000

We have already learnt about normal vital signs, that are taken into consideration while diagnosing a patient's normal physical condition to come into some diagnostic conclusions during physical examination. Normally, vital signs are temperature, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and heart rate.

Apart from these normal vital signs, secondarily some vital signs are also taken into consideration are menstrual cycle, Glasgow Coma Scale, pulse oximetry, and blood glucose levels. The knowledge of these secondary vital signs are essential while concluding some advanced diagnostics. We will see about the fifth vital signs one by one.

1. Glasgow Coma Scale or GCS: It is a neurological measure of recording a conscious state of a patient in relation to the assessment of the disease condition. The scores are the lowest of 3 and the maximum of 14 to 15. In common, GCS is calculated in a patient after a head injury to measure the score of consciousness level.

2. Pain: Pain is a response stimuli of damage intensity of a patient's physiological or psychological trauma. The more intense the trauma level, the more intense pain response from a patient. So, this is taken as one of the main fifth vital sign to diagnose the trauma level or intensity of a disease.

3. Menstrual cycle: This fifth vital sign is used to detect the probability of pregnancy in a female patient. The symptoms upon which a female gets a menstrual cycle are taken into consideration before diagnosing a disease.

4. Pulse oximetry: This is nothing, but measuring a patient's oxygen saturation level and the maximum is 100%. There are 2 types of blood saturati

ons, such as peripheral blood saturation in short SpO2, and arterial oxygen saturation or SaO2. Generally, A wrist or earlobe mounted remote sensor pulse oximeter with plethysmograph may be used to measure pulse oximety levels.

5. Blood glucose level: Sugar test to identify a patient's blood glucose level is another important fifth vital sign that will reveal how the patient's glucose is converted to energy in the blood stream. High or low blood sugars are very well understood based on their consequences in the body.

In the next lesson, we will see about Sixth Vital Signs. Okay. To go the prior lesson about What are Vital Signs? please click here.

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What are Vital Signs ?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 02:57:00 +0000

In this post, we will study about another important aspect in medical science and knowing about them is very crucial and they are vital signs. In every job we encounter, we will encounter vital signs details without a miss. Vital Signs are nothing, but clinical measurements of that are helpful in assuring that human body is in normal state of health.

What are the 4 clinical measurements ?

The four clinical measurements of general health state of a patient are:

1. Heart rate or pulse rate or pulse.

2. Body temperature.

3. Respiratory rate.

4. Blood pressure.

We will see about one by one now.

1. Heart rate or pulse rate or pulse:

Normally, in resting condition, a person's heart rate or pulse is estimated to be around 60 beats to 100 beats in a minute. In fact, the lesser the heart rate, the better heart of health would be. For example, a well-trained sportsperson heart would be around 40 beats to 45 beats a minute.

2. Body Temperature:

Normal body temperature is also known as normothermia or normothermic condition or euthermia. Normal temperature standard is 36.5 to 37.5 degrees Celsius or 97.7 to 99.5 Fahrenheit. The temperature above these levels are considered to be fever. The excessive heat condition is called medically as hyperpyrexia.

3. Respiratory Rate:

Generally, a person may breathe between 12 to 20 breaths per minute, but infants from birth to about 6 weeks of their life normally breathe about 30 to 40 times. A person's respiratory rate may be higher in abnormal conditions such as fever or other illnesses.

4. Blood Pressure:

Blood pressure is a measurement of amount of blood flows on the walls of the heart. Normal blood pressure standard is 120/80 for adults. High blood pressure if found needs to be controlled to maintain the normalcy of heart and blood vessels, otherwise, it may lead to any threat to the life of a patient.

In the next post, we will study about another term in medical science.

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What is Atrial Fibrillation ?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:00:00 +0000

As a medical transcription trainees, you all must know about an important medical term, you would often encounter in files is atrial fibrillation. This is an important medical term related to cardiovascular system i.e. heart and blood vessels. Then, what is atrial fibrillation? We will see the meaning and definition of atrial fibrillation below.

We all know that heart is felt in our body by its beat sounds defined as lub dub sounds while doctors hear through a stethoscope. There are normal and abnormal heart beats can be understood by the professionals and so they can lead the exam with an Electrocardiograph scan to understand more about beats and electrical stimulated condition inside the heart.

So, an ECG or electrocardiograph scan report will tell more about the kind of heart beats and their characteristic features and consequences inside the heart currently and in the near future. Atrial fibrillation is nothing, but an irregular and also often a rapid heart rate related condition, which will lead to poor blood flow to the heart. Atrial fibrillation happens because of the disorganized electric signals inside the heart.

Atrial fibrillation is termed in short in medical field as AFib or AF. Atrial fibrillation may be felt as a fluttering sensation in the chest or sometimes we don't see any symptoms too.

What happens while AFib?

Generally, atria are 2 chambers above the heart that should beat normally to pass the blood to the lower 2 chambers of ventricles, but in AFib or atrial fibrillation, beat happens irregularly, and so blood flow to the downward ventricles from the upper atria happen abnormally.

What is the seriousness of AFib?

If incidentally, a patient with any clots in the blood stream, the blood may enter abnormally inside the brain to make a STROKE...!, but this risk is studied in only 15 to 20 percentage of people only. Atrial fibrillation is treated by giving blood thinners and so any clot blockage and more blood flow to the brain is controlled.

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Aims of Studying Medical Language

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:13:00 +0000

1. The primary objective of studying medical language is UNDERSTANDING a complex term to be simply understood and make the student easier to understand it. If a student cannot understand the term, they may want to remember it only by mugging up the medical terms, which is hard.

2. A medical term may be a simple one or may one complicated term, either needs to be understood to understand the medical science by a student or a reader.

3. Each medical term is organized into parts such that each part of the term can be used with other words to give different meanings. Eg. aden/o is a prefix that means gland, and it can be used with other prefix words to give different meaning related to a gland. For example, adenoma means mass of the gland. Adenitis is inflammation of a gland. Understand.

4. In this way, any term need not to be memorized, anyone who can understand the meaning changes with variations can never forget any medical term that they studied once by understanding with meanings.

5. Though some medical terms like ilium and ileum have the same pronounciations, they differ in meanings. One student of medical language must be very careful about these variations with sameness.

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One Best Method to Prevent Anemia Naturally

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What is ECMO?

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 05:32:00 +0000

What is ECMO procedure?

In this post, we will see about ECMO extended as Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, it is a life-supporting measure used in end-of-life saving procedures of a patient who suffers from life to death. The main purpose of ECMO is to provide oxygenation support to a patient either in postoperative phase or any. In simple words, ECMO provides both cardiac and respiratory support to a patient when needed, when the patient's heart and lungs fail to function properly in critical situations.

Who will get ECMO support, in general?

ECMO provides required oxygenation support to save life from death in crucial situations and so doctors can try their best effort to save the patient's life. In common situation, ECMO is used in children, and also used in adults with heart and lungs failure cases. In this condition, blood carbon di-oxide of a patient is removed by giving oxygenation support.

ECMO device set-up:

In ECMO procedure, three cylinders, one with oxygen, second with air, and the third for collection of impure carbon di-oxide gast from the patients are used. These three cylinders are attached to a gas blender. Gas blender is attached to a oxygenator that is attached to a blood pump device. Cannulas connecting the patient's lungs and heart is attached to a bladder box, pressure module and heat exchanger.

Where ECMO is necessary?

ECMO can be applied in a patient with less oxygen in his or her blood i.e. less than 100 mmHg oxygen in their blood, patients with refractory cardiogenic shock or in patients with cardiac arrest, patients who fail to wean from CP bypass surgery, or in patients of cardiac transplant or patients got ventricular assist devices etc.

Types of ECMO:

Venovenous ECMO and Veno-arterial ECMO are of 2 types this can be used in human body. In both of these situation, blood that is drained from the body is given oxygen from outside source other than human breathing that is happening naturally for a healthy one. Pure blood after oxygenation process outside source is return to the vein system in VV ECMO procedure and so cardiac support is not needed,

There is no guarantee that a patient can be given life for sure after ECMO procedure, but it is an additional final support in saving a patient who are with lung and heart failures.

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Blood Work Lab Values Abbreviations

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:28:00 +0000

First of all, Happy New Year wishes for all our free medical transcription course blog readers. This post aims to make you well aware of all the lab tests that are done to know the blood values before diagnosing disease condition of a patient. This article aims to know what are the important abbreviations used in blood test lab values.

After we know about the important blood work abbreviations, we can then move to know about blood lab tests one by one. Okay.

The following are the important abbreviated forms that are used in the lab blood works.

1, dl - deciliter

2. gm - gram

3. Hg - mercury

4. IU - international

5. l - liter

6. mEq - milli-equivalent

7. mg - milligram

8. m - millimeter

9. mm3 - cubic millimeter

10. pg - picogram

11. mu symbol with l - microliter

12. mu symbol with m3 - cubic micron

In the coming posts, we will see about complete blood work tests, such as atrial blood gases, blood electrolytes, blood cell counts, coagulation tests, blood proteins and pigments, immune system components, serum immunoglobulins, blood enzymes, plasma and serum values etc.

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20 Important Endocrinology Related Medical Terms

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:30:00 +0000

This post gives a list of important Endocrinology related medical words.

1. Chelating agents - Multidentate ligand

2. Thrombolytic - related to treat dissolving dangerous clots in blood vessels

3. Streptokinase - used to dissolve blood clots formed in the blood vessels

4. Urokinase - plasminogen activator

5. Sodium oxalate - a sodium salt

6. Sodium citrate - a sodium salt

7. Ammonium citrate - citric acid salt

8. Hemarthrosis - bleeding into joint spaces

9. Ecchymosis - discoloration of the skin from bruising

10. Contraindication - a treatment or drug should not be used for patient for a particular reason

11. Hemorrhoid - discomfort because of swollen and inflamed veins in the rectum and anus

12. Thyroid gland - Large ductless gland in the neck

13. Endocrine - related to eight ductless glands in the body

14. Histology - study of tissues

15. Secretion - production of any discharge from a gland, cell, or an organ

16. Lobes - anatomical divisions of any organ i.e. thyroid lobes

17. Isthmus - piece of tissue that connects two large parts

18. Colloid - non-crystalline substance made up of large molecules

19. Cuboidal epithelium - cube-like epithelial cells

20. Calcitonin - thyrocalcitonin hormone

We will see another important endocrinological medical terms in the next post.

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Medical Transcription Important Terminologies and Meanings

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:56:00 +0000

This article gives meanings of some important, often using medical terminologies used in anatomy and physiology of human body. We will see those one by one now.

1. Tremor - Shivering or shaking of any part of the body.

2. Stature - Height or growth.

3. Motility - Movement.

4. Exophthalmus - Protrusion of eyeball.

5. Goitre - Enlargement of thyroid gland.

6. Edema - Collection of fluid.

7. Tachycardia - Increased heart rate.

8. Bradycardia - Decreased heart rate.

9. Insomnia - Reduced sleep.

10. Hoarseness - Husky voice.

11. Menorrhagia - Increased menstrual flow.

12. Amenorrhea - Decreased menstrual flow.

13. Hypothyroidism - Decreased secretion of thyroid hormones.

14. Hyperthyroidism - Increased secretion of thyroid hormones.

15. Adenoma - Tumor.

16. Tumor - Swelling.

17. Cretinism - Hypothyroidism in children.

18. Myxedema - Severe hypothyroidism in adults.

In the next post, we will see more medical terms and meanings.

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12-வது கிரகம் பூமியை விரைவில் அழிக்குமா ?

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3 Things to Know About the Difference Between a Heart Attack and a Cardiac Arrest

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 03:14:00 +0000

As a medical transcription learner, you must know about the difference between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack. The three important things between a cardiac arrest and a heart attack.

Heart Attack:

1. Heart attack means blood flow to the heart from other organs or parts of the body is hindered by any blockage in the blood arteries, and heart attack happens.

2. In heart attack, the heart beats will not stop necessarily immediately.

3. Heart attack is just a problem of circulation of blood.

Cardiac Arrest:

1. Cardiac arrest means a sudden stoppage of heart beats due to malfunction in the heart and so blood supply is affected to the vital organs such as brain, lungs, and kidneys etc.

2. In cardiac arrest, the heart beat stops immediately.

3. Cardiac arrest is a problem of the electrical conduction inside the heart.

In the next post, we will study about what is ECMO and its uses. Okay.

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Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) Medical Terms

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 02:21:00 +0000

After a gap of a few months our blog is updated with a new lesson update. Here onwards, new lessons will be updated frequently on a regular basis of 2 days interval. In this lesson, we will see about some important medical terms are used in Ear, Nose, and Throat are of medicine on a day-to-day basis whenever we handle medical transcription job as a profession.

1. Pulse oximetry - A device used to detect oxygen (O2) in the blood stream of a patient.

2. Hyperventillation: Excessive breathing consumption by a patient in particular period of time.

3. Salivary amylaze: An enzyme is produced in saliva of a human being to digest carbohydrates of food materials consumed.

4. Mastication: It is the process of chewing of a food.

5. Buccal mucosa: Inner layer of the mucous membrane of the mouth.

6. Lingual: Pertaining to tongue.

7. Hypoxemia: A condition of reduced oxygen in a patient's blood.

8. Aptyalism: An abnormal condition of lack of secretion of saliva in the mouth of a patient.

9. Sialorrhea: An abnormal condition of excessive secretion of saliva.

10. Oral cavity: Space inside the mouth.

11. Digestive tract: Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, and anus.

In the next post, we will see about small intestine anatomy and functions. Okay.

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Different Types of Drugs

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 31 Jul 2016 02:15:00 +0000

We can divide the drugs normally used in the medicine field to cure diseases or to control the symptoms of a patient are of approximately 13 in varieties. They are of Eye drops, nasal sprays, tablets, nasal solutions, capsule, syrup, ointments, vaccines, inhalational drug forms, vaccines, intrauterine contraceptive device, hormonal drug forms, ointments. We will see about one by one now.

Eye and Ear drops: Commonly eye drops are in liquid form to apply through eyes and ears to cure any infection conditions like conjunctivitis, red eyes, itchy eyes etc. Ear drops are used to cure ear infections like otitis.

Nasal sprays: These are used to treat conditions like allergic rhinitis and nasal congestion etc.

Tablets: They are solid unit of dosage forms of a medicine with active substances of materials to cure any separate or combined medicinal effect in a patient's body. We can see tablets in round, elliptical, or square forms generally in medicine shops.

Nasal solutions: These are also used in liquid forms such as saline liquids used to treat sinusitis like conditions.

We will see about more drug forms in the next post.

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Routes of Administration of a Medicine

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 13:08:00 +0000

Medicines are used to cure a disease or controlling symptoms or for any other purposes in any human body or in any animals can be administered in three routes, they are enteral, parenteral, and local ways. We will see about the routes of these one by one now.

Before this we should understand that medicines are of different in forms. They are of eye drops, nasal sprays, tablets, nasal solutions, capsules, syrups, ointments, vaccines, inhalational drugs, intrauterine contraceptives, and hormonal drugs etc.,

All kind of these drugs can be given by a medical professional using the enteral parenteral, and local ways to administer inside a patient's body to cure or control a disease or any disease conditions etc.,

Entral: This method of medicine administration can be given in 3 ways such as oral, rectal, and sublingual. Tablets, capsules, syrup are for examples are administered through oral route. Rectal suppositories like drugs are administered through rectal route. Nitroglycerin kind of drugs are administered to patients through sublingual (under the tongue) route.

Parenteral: Intravenous, intradermal, intramuscular, and inhalational are the routes of administrations of parenteral drugs. Injections are use to administer drugs for administering via intravenous, intradermal, and intramuscular routes. Oxygen kind of respiratory supports are given through inhalational method via nostrils.

Local: The rest of the other kinds of administration of drugs is local. Eye drops and ear drops are examples of local route administration of medicines inside the body.

In the next post, we will read about types of forms of medicines. Okay.

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