Thursday, May 28, 2009

What's in an Artery?

Tonight, Son #1 wanted help studying for his science quiz tomorrow.  The chapter in the textbook was about the circulatory system.  Heart, lungs, bloodstream, etc.  

We had two big laughs about the material.  First was that the fancy word for blood pressure cuff is somewhat of a tongue twister for him.  It took quite a few tries to say sphygmomanometer.  Most of the time it came out like sphygmoMOMeter (which I took as a supreme honor, of course!).  Then there were the dreaded hemogoblins.  Don't be caught out late, alone, around the oxygen rich blood that's coming from the lungs, because of the hemogoblins.  This is the stuff that nightmares are made of.  I was reminded of the movie (and the fantastic cartoon) Osmosis Jones.  People and creatures actually traveling around in the bloodstream.  Good fun.

I'm just teasing, of course.  He's a good student, and it was getting late, and we were both tired.   Yawn.  Nighty night.

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