Medical Dictionary for Word

I got really tired of all the red underlining correction due to incomplete dictionaries in my Microsoft Word 2007 while writing the medical report for my seminar on Wednesday so I took a minute off to search for an add-on to make it correct it properly.

I didn't find one that's legit for MS Word directly but I found out that there's another way of doing it.
MS Word use files called *.dic which is simply a text file with words lined up alphabetically.
There's even an option to add you own dictionaries stored in the folder:

In Windows 7
\\PC-root(C:)\Users\'Yourname'\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Uproof\

By downloading this medical dictionary to your PC, unzipping it with WinRar or WinZip etc., and putting it into this specific folder, or equally located in Windows XP or Vista, you can open Word and go to the path looking something like this:
Word Start Button > Word Options > Language Options > Own Dictionaries

There you may import your own dictionary and by adding the file you just saved you're done with a fresh word list of medical terminology.

My new heart

It's so nice to be home, breath some west coast air and see all my folks.
Dad picked me up from the airport and we drove back home chatting about pretty much everything.
At first when I planned these two weeks of "vacation" I wasn't sure if going home was a good idea, but I'm not regretting taking the flight back home because when you see the family you understand how much you've missed them.
I won't forget to study, been going over the circulatory system once already, and my plan is to finish off the upcoming three systems.

I've had some time to relax and I've been continuing watching Gray's Anatomy where I left off and I've also been drawing - just finished the conducting system of the heart. I've spent almost 1½ hours and I must say I'm satisfied with the result, the shading was hard but I'm getting better. The base is from Netter's, conductive system of the heart:

the Heart

Winter Semester finally came to an end

There's a thing or two that happened and now I got the time to put together a neat summary.

I left off by telling you I failed my first biophysics exam. A lot of different parameters influence the examination and this was my first encounter with this type of examination.
I could write many positive things about it, but more importantly also a lot of negative things - in a constructive way - although I wont bore anyone with such details unless they are interested.
The following week I dedicated to the gym, the booklet and to sleep.
I studied a lot and threw the notes that I've been studied from in the trash bin. Instead I changed perspective and started to break down the green booklet thoroughly. It helped a lot and that's just another proof that there's no point of taking short-cuts.

I rebooked the exam to the upcoming Thursday and this time I felt ready. My questions was good and I switched tactics. Instead of leaving out knowledge on the preparation paper I wrote a lot, and didn't leave anything out, even if is was just remotely connected to my topic.
I believe that when the examiner saw my papers he understood I knew at least something and therefore didn't push me hard.
It took me approximately a minute to explain the first topic; Light Propagation, properties and light spectrum. He heard me out and just asked a follow up question in optics, one of my favourite subjects among the biophysics material - which means that I didn't have much trouble answering that.
I kept talking, in contrast to last time where he did the talking, and the next topic, Particle Accelerators, went through the same procedure with a follow up question on magnetism.
The last topic was about Phase Border Phenomena and I had trouble remembering the different subjects under that topic which left my paper rather blank.
I tried to explain in a non scientific way and the good thing about this examiner is that he is not impossible in any way, especially since we had such a good discussion up until now.
He guided me through it and dragged some knowledge out of my head and the result ended up in a passing credit which made all the effort during these 2½ weeks worth it all.

Next up was celebrating at the Asian sushi restaurant that just opened up around the corner while simultaneously studying for the next exam in First Aid.
First Aid is another course that sort of just have been there as a side dish not really contributing to the meal, so to speak, which is a shame because I really like rice, or potatoes.
It was time to show of some military paramedic training - well, at least that's what I thought in the beginning of the course.
I thought I'd remembered it all, and also know it all - and I was proven wrong badly.
There are always updates and in this topic, as in everything else, repetition is the key.
I think I could have skipped out on the course by giving the examiners my documents from the Army but now when the exam is over (I passed even if I got the hardcore examiner) I'm rather happy I didn't.

It seems that I haven't been taking any short-cuts lately, and I start to wonder if I will ever be able to do that in the future.
When it comes to biophysics, unfortunately and to my utter surprise, cheating is to something worth considering and what scares me even more is the fact that it is to some also a "level up" in the social group interaction.

Regardless the time spent I can now happily conclude that I made it through the winter semester and that I'm excited to begin the summer semester. It's a true fact that studying anatomy will be a blessing to the brain after the massive texts about heavy atoms, quarks and gamma rays.

And, at last, I'll end this with a nice way to confuse your teacher:
(more nice exam answers at smosh.com)

Detailed Drawing Preview

I have a couple of ideas and this is one of them. I cut it down as a preview showing some details but it's far from finished.
It's a great practice and I think I'm improving each time. So much fun.

How small is the world?

Metaphorically speaking:
Let's say that during your vacation in France you enter a café and are about to order. As you stand in line waiting, the person in front of you turns around and appears to be your old class mate from elementary school.
Most probably, even if that person was only a friend of a friend, you'd start to talk. One of you will either think, or say, "oh, the world is so small!" and then you'd end up drinking coffee together.

That got me thinking, how small is the world really?
I was studying but got distracted by this thought and as I reflected I was looking out the window and saw a small bird sitting on one of the branches of the tree in the garden.
I said to myself: "the world must be so much bigger to that bird, than it is to me..."
Based on the thought that this might just be the case the size of the world must be proportionally smaller for a tall man, lets say 1,91 like myself, than for a child measuring only 1,30 above the ground.
Now, to think that in almost every "normal" case (I don't like the word normal), overlooking the fact that we shrink when we get older, it's true that with age comes height and vice versa.
Another parameter is that with age comes experience and I believe in most of the cases the source of imagination is greater in younger days.

The conclusion must be that the size of the world somehow must be inversely proportional to the size and age of the person.
Back to the initial reflection; the bigger and older we get, the probability of bumping into one of the unexpected meetings must then increase, yes?

I'm growing bigger and undoubtedly I'm also getting older, therefore my world is shrinking - and that means I need to buy more coffee.

Scanning Printer Result

I finally boughtthe printer I've been looking for and four clicks on the website, four thousand CZK and four hours later it arrived.
I did the setup and eveything worked just fine. Finally I can scan my documents, print and copy.
I'll put up my sketches and and a neat test print. Some of them you've seen already so there will be a double post. Note that most of them are just quick drawings and I'm happy to reveal that I'm currently working on some drawings with a little more time invested in the drawing process.
Enjoy.

Biophysics: Day #4 - 6 + First attempt

You how authors sometimes begin their books with the end and then what follows is the story of how the character(s) got there? I'm about to do just that.
If you're just here to find out how I did on the Biophysics all you have to do is finish this sentence (although it is not the end).

I've already taken my first attempt and I did indeed fail it, hence my humble adding of the sentence: "I was naive to think that one and a half week of studies was enough to cover the whole course".
But before I begin to explain how it was being examined let me first tell you about the way there, just as promised.

During Friday there wasn't much going on. I hardly left the apartment and tried to dig through the two last chapters in the booklet.
The pages in what we refer to as "the green booklet" really is horrible to read. Not that it lack the information, the other way around actually which cause it to be difficult reading.
My friend said it in a nice way: "...it's medical orientated physics, not physics orientated for medics..."

As I try to write down what I've been doing it hit me that the days all go blurry and starts to get mixed up in my head which is a sign of too much reading and to little living. The fact that I've sacrificed the workouts is not making me too happy but it's exam period and if that's what it takes then fine.
It's safe to say that I got all the other credits and the only obstacle left is the biophysics.
Saturday went by with at lot of formula memorizing and not too much reading which was sort of a good break from all the reading and sorting of terms.
During Sunday I mostly looked over it all and one minute it honestly felt like I knew enough but then waves of doubt went through my mind.
I scheduled for at least 8 hours of sleep and went to bed rather confident.

I wasn't nervous as I waited to get in for the examination. It started at 9 and I woke up, got ready and dressed up nicely one and a half hour before that. Note that the biophysic-department is in the building right next to my apartment so I didn't
have to stress.
During the exam it's really strange how everything in your head seems to just crawl up and hide.
It's easy to be wise after the event but another week would be good to have and a reschedule would have been the right thing to do.

Taking water over my head is just fine, failing an attempt is also fine - mistakes made are almost always good things, because one can correct them.
There's also rumours roaming around that it's fairly easy to cheat during this type of exam but I honestly rather get put down proven to have a lack of knowledge, do the second attempt better and finish it all of with a solid knowledge.
I discussed this matter the other day and the conclusion was as solid. The hard way is the best way, taking that road down will lead to more knowledge, experience and memories. Even if this philosophy covers life in its whole, not only biophysics, one is still able to apply it.

Now I have to schedule another week and I think that will be just enough in order to learn the booklet from inside out.
Although I'll look like this when I'm done it's going to be worth it.

Knowledge is easy to carry...