Although internal medicine focuses on diagnosing and treating disease, injury or other conditions related to internal organs, the practice does the same for external body parts, also. Doctors who practice internal medicine can specialize in both organ health and external conditions.
A plastic colander. A colander (or cullender) is a bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food such as pasta or rice. A colander is also used to rinse vegetables. The perforated nature of the colander allows liquid to drain through while retaining the solids inside.
A blunder is an embarrassing mistake. Accidentally called your new boyfriend by your old boyfriend's name? Ouch. That's a blunder you don't want to repeat. Has an embarrassing mistake ever made you feel like youâre stumbling around with your eyes closed? If so, it wonât surprise you to learn that blunder comes from the Old Norse word blundra, meaning to âshut one's eyes.â It wasnât until the eighteenth century that blunder came to refer to a stupid or embarrassing mistake, or as a verb, to describe making such a mistake, as in âI tend to blunder when I'm nervous.â.