Jennifer Stone

Electrocardiogram – Electrical Heart Graph

The most commonly heard word when talking about heart diseases is the ‘electrocardiogram’ and more commonly, it is known as ECG or EKG. The phobia of this long medical jargon can be prevented by calling it an electrical heart graph. Medically, it is the n... Read >

GASTROSCOPY – LOOKING INSIDE

Gastroscopy sounds similar to gastronomy, but there are no similarities in both except that the latter may be the cause for the former! Gastro means stomach while scopy means to look, so gastroscopy can be loosely translated to looking inside the stomach.... Read >

COLONOSCOPY – THE PEEK INSIDE

Colonoscopy is nothing about colonies but about the colon situated inside our body. It may sound like a solid object but is not a matter of worry as colon is the medical name for large intestine. Colonoscopy procedure is the internal examination of the co... Read >

Laparoscopy – the wonder innovation

Every child wonders how babies come out and how can one get and see inside the stomach? Well, it no longer remains a mystery, as the answer is Laparoscopy. It may sound like a tongue twister but actually it is a medical term for a process and the instrume... Read >