Do you know your body well enough that you can pronounce the Latin names when you visit a doctor or tell an acquaintance that you are feeling ill or pain in some area of the body? Do you know your body well enough that you know which muscle is connected to what bone? Do you know your body well enough that you know how each organ in your body functions or how your body metabolizes? Have you ever felt thankful for having a healthy body? Do you say, “I am thankful for having a healthy body, and I owe my gratitude to my immune system for doing such a fine work on protecting me from microscopic pathogens”?
Heeeeead, and shoulders, knees and toes! Knees and toes!
Yes, I do thank my immune system fairly frequently. Sometimes I thank my pancreas that I don’t have diabetes yet. And I occasionally egg on my knees if they start to hurt and I’m not done walking to my destination yet.
LOL I am not healthy at all, and have taken anatomy in college, so I have no issue discussing my body parts in great detail. I also spend a fair amount of time online researching the various conditions I have, and following the current research reports. I also use mediguard to monitor my medication interactions. They also have a monthly email where they point out reports on your registered medication profile. Very handy.
I’m decent (if rusty) with bones, shitty with muscles.
I at least have a rudimentary understanding of most of the organs in my body.
and I have a good enough understanding of the immune system to know that not every little piece of dirt is going to hurt me. Also, that my body’s natural microflora and fauna is my friend.
My parents worked in the almost-medical field (a Psychiatric Hospital - aka an Asylum) so therefore I know a lot less than I ought to.
I have a fair grasp of some technical terms, but I would only get 50% on a general knowledge quiz about the human body.
I can discuss medical issues well enough that I’ve had a doctor glance at me, nod, and then shift his/her vocabulary and discussion up a level or two. My grandmother was an LVN (the “dirty” nurse in an operating room) and we sometimes discussed what she did during her shift when I lived with her. My mother was a lab technician and hypochondriac. One of my nephews is an MD, and the other is a PA, so medical topics will sometimes be discussed.
Usually I know but don’t use the Latin terms. I’ve found that if I DO use the Latin terms around people who might or might not be familiar with them, that I’m regarded as a showoff, so I have trained myself to use the common terms instead.
If I had a healthy body and immune system, I might say such a thing. As it is, I’m glad to be living in a time when antibiotics are plentiful and, for the most part, cheap, and also to be living in a time when doctors are concerned about pain management, rather than expecting patients to tough it out.
Nope, not a hope. I know where all my bits and pieces are - which came in handy when I had a kidney stone and not as the receptionist at the clinic [on the phone] thought I was having my period - “I know where my bleeping kidneys are!!!”
Similarly a pain in my lung area wasn’t “just you having another kidney stone” (actually it turned out to be a pulled muscle, but I was right about it not being my kidney!)
I was able to ‘diagnose’ that my mother had cracked a rib when she fell one time - she refused to believe a word of it, but when the doctor arrived she confirmed that yes indeed it was a cracked rib.
Latin? Why bother. My Dr. knows that and that’s why he gets paid the big bucks. I am thankful that I have a healthy body and rarely get sick (knock on wood), I feel pretty “in tune” with my body and I thank myself for keeping fit. I’ve had to apologize to my liver a few times, though.
Some parts of my body I know extremely well. Others, I just sort of point to.
Note: if you tell a 10-year old that “gluteus maximus” refers to the butt, she will dissolve into a puddle of giggles.
Pretty well, I was a bio major (pre-med, but all bio majors at my school were pre-med by default) in college so I took lots of comparative anatomy/physiology, and human physiology classes. There was a time that I knew every bone in the body, and the origin, insertion, and purpose of every muscle. I remember most of the bones (forgot the wrist and ankle ones the day after the test though) and lots of the muscles (forgot most of the facial and other small ones), not many origins and insertions though. I have a good handle on the other organ systems as well. And I can use proper terminology for locations and movements of the body (medial/distal, pronate/supinate, adduct/abduct, etc).
Studied lots of bio in grad school too but with more of a micro/molecular flavor, I suspect I have a better understanding of what’s going on INSIDE a cell than most MDs.
Are you kidding? Not long ago I tore a muscle. A person with anatomical knowledge told me what the muscle is called. I forgot it. I asked my niece, who is pre-med, and she told me a different name for it. I forgot that too.
I know most of it pretty well. I have issues remembering specific muscle names but I know where they are and how they work their designated body parts. I also have issues with most of the functions of the brain sections but I know where they are.
I am very good with the locations and functions of the internal organs. I have taken two human anatomy classes and will probably take at least one more just for fun but since my major is Pathobiology, most of my future classes will deal with animal anatomy.
I find it amusing when people come to me for medical help. I am a community college graduate currently working on a degree which focuses on animal diseases. My goal is to work with DEAD animals or humans. I know nothing about why it hurts when you breath unless it’s precordial catch and that’s only because I’ve had that off and on my whole life. I’m pretty good at diagnosing heartburn and UTIs but again, that’s because I’ve personally felt the symptoms they’re talking about.
Yet people still come to me. So, I use my knowledge of what body part they’re probably concerned about and their symptoms and I turn to google to find a good reason why they should go to the doctor.