Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Effects that conflict with expectations. In pharmacology, effects that are the opposite of what a drug usually produce.  

The conflict that is created when one set of beliefs threatens to replace an established belief pattern.  

A way of viewing life. A world view or belief pattern that is overriding. One’s view of “the way things are”; an implicit framework within which “everything” fits or is understood. In science, for example, one’s “world view” restricts what problems are considered legitimate for study and what methods are acceptable to pursue them. Sir…

A drug that blocks serotonin synthesis resulting in a deficiency of that neurotransmitter.  

Paracervical anesthetic. Type of regional anesthesia in which a local anesthetic agent is injected on each side of the cervix to achieve anesthesia during labor and childbirth.  

Paracervical block.  

An inversion that is entirely within one arm of a chromosome.  

Drainage of fluid from the peritoneal cavity by means of a large needle inserted through the abdominal wall. The procedure of draining fluid from a cavity inside the body using a hollow needle, either for diagnostic purposes or because the fluid is harmful. Procedure in which fluid is with-drawn from a body cavity, most often…

Also Ebers Papyrus. Dates to 1550 B.C.; an Egyptian document containing descriptions of over 700 different drugs that were used at that time. Most of the descriptions were of drugs from botanical sources, but many were also of animal and mineral sources.  

Developed by George Papanicolaou and consists of obtaining cells from the cervix of the uterus and examining them under the microscope for any abnormal conditions that could indicate the presence of a malignancy pap smear. A procedure in which cells are removed from the cervix and examined for signs of cancer. Short for Papanicolaou’s test,…