Dr Menja Jefason

28/12/2025

Health Tips

Top 25 medical terms to know

1. Benign: Not cancerous

2. Malignant: Cancerous

3. Anti-inflammatory: Reduces swelling, pain, and soreness (such as ibuprofen or naproxen)

4. Body Mass Index (BMI): Body fat measurement based on height and weight

5. Biopsy: A tissue sample for testing purposes

6. Hypotension: Low blood pressure

7. Hypertension: High blood pressure

8. Lesion: Wound, sore, or cut

9. Noninvasive: Doesn’t require entering the body with instruments; usually simple

10. Outpatient: Check in and check out the same day

11. Inpatient: Plan to stay overnight for one or more days

12. In remission: Disease is not getting worse; not to be confused with being cured

13. Membrane: Thin layer of pliable tissue that serves as a covering or lining or connection between two structures

14. Acute: Sudden but usually short (e.g., acute illness)

15. Angina: Pain in the chest related to the heart that comes and goes

16. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD): Heartburn

17. Cellulitis: Inflamed or infected tissue beneath the skin

18. Epidermis: Outermost layer of skin

19. Neutrophils: Most common type of white blood cell

20. Edema: Swelling

21. Embolism: Blood clot

22. Sutures: Stitches

23. Polyp: Mass or growth of thin tissue

24. Compound fracture: Broken bone that protrudes through the skin

25. Comminuted fracture: Broken bone that shatters into many pieces

23/12/2025

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29/11/2024

You are living with Diabetes and you are eating anyhow, you eat wheat, rice, maize flour, fruits, juices, and grains.

Who is your doctor?

Who gave you the meal plan?

If you want to say goodbye to diabetes, run away from those foods.

They make the condition worsen and lead to complications like kidney failure or blindness.

Make the right choice.

When you make the wrong diet choices, you will continue to experience bad health.

Don't spend the rest of your life taking drugs every day.

Changing your diet and lifestyle will make you free from diabetes.

Don't be brainwashed.

Disclaimer: This is not a replacement of any advice given to you by your doctor, it is strictly for educational purposes.

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