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My least favorite is pyogenic granuloma. Confused me for so long until I just accepted that the name makes no sense.
Yeah, people need to make their minds up on the named sesamoid bones (patella and pisiform, are there other important ones?) because it's confusing as hell the way it's done now. Also on whether quadriceps is one muscle with 4 heads, or 4 muscles - different books break it down differently, but they all seem kind of embarrassed to admit that they think of it as a single muscle. At least with the 'triceps surae' they finally decided to break it down and stuck with it.For what it's worth, the patellar "tendon" is named that way because it is part of the larger extensor mechanism, I.E. the quad tendon. The patella is a giant sesamoid bone, and so is also part of that mechanism. So technically the patellar tendon is just an extension of the quad tendon, but people tend to separate the two in their minds when thinking about it.
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For me it’s lucency. My brain really wants that to mean “bright” on x-ray, not dark, so it always takes a few extra seconds to orient myself to what that means on a question or whatever.Silhouette sign is one that always gets me.
For me it’s lucency. My brain really wants that to mean “bright” on x-ray, not dark, so it always takes a few extra seconds to orient myself to what that means on a question or whatever.