Welcome to our English MTA Dialog medical crossword in December 2019! After reading MTA Dialog 2019 you may now test your knowledge. The terms in the crossword are all words you might know from the issues during this year.

In various professions where people are exposed to radiation it is very important to know how that radiation will affect them. In this article I am going to write about dosimetry in medicine, especially for radiographers or radiologic technologists and radiology technicians.

Worldwide, about 390 million people are infected with the Dengue virus each year. The number of infected people has grown over the last decades and today about half of the world’s population is at risk of contracting Dengue fever.

A stroke can happen to anyone at any time and to all age groups – from unborns, to newborns, teenagers, middleagers and aged people. According to the WHO each year worldwide about 6.2 mio. people die because of a stroke.

What is HPV? We know about 200 different types of human papillomaviruses (HPV) of which about 40 types cause anal and genital diseases and are sexually transmitted, non-regarding the sexual orientation.

What is an insect venom allergy? This is when someone gets bitten or stung by an insect and shows an allergic reaction. The insects whose venoms most often cause allergies are honey bees and wasps. In this article, I will talk about bee sting allergies, their consequences and their treatment.

The world has heard about magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning as a diagnostic tool for human diseases, but it is also very common in horse veterinarian clinics. When a ‧horse goes lame, or it has other pathologic orthopedic conditions, an MRI is a versatile and efficient method.

What are senses?

A sense is the ability to perceive stimuli from the environment and the own body. Those stimuli are perceived through our sensory organs which are the eyes, the nose, the ears, the tongue as well as the skin and several internal sense organs. The sense organs contain specific cells which...

The terms digitization, digitalization and digital transformation can often be confused due to their similar appearance. Digitization means the transformation of analogue information into digital form. For example, you scan a sheet of paper with information on it, and save this scan on your computer as a PDF.

In health care facilities, risks exist. The employees are the most at risk. Firstly, the risk of infectious pathogens is very high; workers can be exposed to Hepatitis-B- or Hepatitis-C-Viruses, or to HIV. Thus, arrangements to minimize the risk of infection are exceptionally important. Secondly, accidents...