Talk:Kernicterus
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NB: the key to understanding scientific/medical terms is to understand the roots, because the same word roots/structures are used over and over. "Kern" is Greek for "nut" or "nucleus" (from which we get the English word "kernel") and "icterus" is Greek for jaundice. The Latin "nucleus," in turn, has three scientific applications: the nucleus of the atom; the nucleus of the cell; and the nuclei of the brain, various collections of nerve bodies which can be readily identified at autopsy, or can be seen in other tissue preparations.
Likewise "polycythemia" breaks down into the Greek "poly," "many;" "cyt," "cell;" and "hem," "blood": [too] many blood cells.
[edit] Verbatim content
Someone had taken verbatim content of kernicterus straight from eMedicine.com (see here), so I removed it. --theSpectator talk 22:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
So, you tell us that elevated bilirubin can cause kerniecterus, but you don't tell us what levels or duration of elevated levels of bilirubin will cause kernicterus. E.g. when do we get worried about the level???
75.194.132.136 01:52, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Incorect Isomer depicted
The image presently displayed depicts the E,E isomeric form of bilirubin, which is not the much less soluble Z,Z isomeric form of bilirubin primarily responsible for kernicterus
65.207.69.2 (talk) 17:06, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
