1. Radiology Review Chest Films and the Heart Part 2 MDFPR/UNECOM August 5, 2009 M. LaCombe

2. But first, a pop-quiz:

3. A blurry star, or

4. A pretty green worm, or

5. A nice toadstool, or

6. Nice purple flowers, or

7. Gee, the stars are out, or

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9. Interns: Your first homework assignment, please?

10. And your second?

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48. The preceeding film shows the pulmonary plethora of ASD plethora [ pleth -er- uh ] noun 1.overabundance; excess: a plethora of advice and a paucity of assistance. 2. Pathology Archaic . a morbid condition due to excess of red corpuscles in the blood or increase in the quantity of blood. [Origin: 153545; < NL < Gk plthra fullness]

49. The facial plethora of Cushings

50. The facial plethora of carcinoid:

51. The hemi-plethora of harlequin syndrome

52. A plethora of penguins

53. Actually, the correct term would be a colony of penguins (when seen thus, they are often referred to as a huddle of penguins

54. As in, an army of ants:

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57. Or a murder of crows:

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64. What object, other than a water bottle does this look like?

65. It might remind one of a Minoan flagon or ewer (2200 BCE)

66. Or this Tudor flagon from the 16th C.

67. Or the bocksbeutel, the flagon-shaped German wine bottle characteristic of Franconia and of Wrzberg

68. So, when you start seeing flagons, think pericardial effusion

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83. Thats it for this week. Next week, August 12 th , more on chest xrays. In closing, what is this?

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85. Yes, it is foxfire, a bioluminescent fungus

86. Were not done. Bioluminescent fungi share an important light-making enzyme with fireflies. Do you know the name of the enzyme?

87. Its luciferase, which gets its name from Lucifer, Bringer-of-light, the Fallen Angel

88. Were done. Chest xrays on the 12 th and then on the 19 th

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