10.20.2009

Pteryble diagnostic skillz

At surgery clinic today I saw a patient with something in her eye (incidental finding, she was there for an umbilical hernia evaluation). My internal monologue: "Ooh, look! It's a ptery-something! Pterygoid? No, those are in your skull. Pterydactyl? Nope can't be that, those are extinct. Pterygium! Yeah, that's what it is!" Nice to know that obscure medical knowledge is still down in there somewhere.

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3 Comments:

At 19:19 , Anonymous Tarver said...

I'm glad that "those are extinct" was your reason for ruling out pterydactyl. Because if they're weren't...

 
At 21:08 , Blogger dmowen said...

Ha! Pterydactals: even more rare than zebras!

 
At 18:52 , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!

 

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