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The Skeletal System
<view this essay>.... It consists of about 200 bones. The number of bones varies, because some bones fuse at different periods of time. Most bones are hollow with marrow cells inside. Ligaments connect bones to bones, and tendons connect bones to muscles.
Axial Skeleton and Appendicular skeleton:
The skeleton are divided into appendicular skeleton (bones of arms and legs or "appendage", and girdler, which attach them to the rest of the body), and axial skeleton (skull, backbone or "vertebrae," ribs and breast bone, or "sternum").
Axial Skeleton
The skull is made up of number of bones fused together. The backbone is composed of 33 separate different size and shaped vertebrae .....
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Lassa Fever: An Old World Arenavirus
<view this essay>.... town's Church of the Brethren Mission Hospital. But, the antibiotics did
nothing. Her fever escalated, she was severely dehydrated and blotches,
hemorrhages, were appearing on her skin. She began to swell and became delirious,
so they shipped her to a larger hospital, where one day later she went into
convulsions and died. After a nurse who was tending to the sister came down with
the same symptoms and died, the doctors in the hospital began to suspect it was
a disease heretofore unseen by any of them. Autopsy on the nurse showed
significant damage to every organ in the body, the heart was stopped up, with
loads of blood cells and platelets piled well into t .....
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Seasonal Affective Disorder
<view this essay>.... was reviewing a case of a 29-year-old woman. He had noticed
a pattern, the woman’s depression came in the winters and left in the spring.
Over the course of years the woman moved from city to city. Mueller noticed,
that the farther north she moved the early the depression. Mueller had begun to
speculate that the lack of sunlight had contributed to the women’s depression.
In order to confirm this he exposed the patient to artificial sunlight. He
found that over a period of time the patient had recovered from the depression.
Today light therapy is the most commonly used method in treating SAD.
The two hormones that are affected by the sunlight, and are .....
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Being A Virologist
<view this essay>.... would work in a place like this. There
are levels one to five. Level 5 having the most lethal virus.
Why would I want to be a virologist? Well the reason for me is, I
find viruses fascinating. Trying to find cures for diseases like HIV and
the common cold. Yes, the common cold is caused by a virus. And there is
no cure for the common cold, just vaccines.
I don't know, and could not find that much information on exactly
how virologists find cures and vaccines. But I know that they need
antibodies to make these cures. And there are two primary ways of making
these antibodies. One, they can take them from patient zero. Patient
zero would be .....
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Lyme Disease
<view this essay>.... a growing red area on the
skin (erythema chronicum migrans or ECM). The disorder may be followed
weeks later by neurological, heart or joint abnormalities.
Symptomatology --------------------------------
The first symptom of Lyme disease is a skin lesion. Known as erythema
chronicum migrans, or ECM, this usually begins as a red discoloration
(macule) or as an elevated round spot (papule). The skin lesion usually
appears on an extremity or on the trunk, especially the thigh, buttock or
the under arm. This spot expands, often with central clearing, to a
diameter as large as 50 cm (c. 12 in.). Approximately 25% of patients with
Lyme disease report hav .....
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Observation Of The Early Childhood
<view this essay>.... first activities under physical and motor
development that I'm going to observe them performing are the large
muscle/gross-motor skills. The large muscle/gross-motor skills include:
climbing across the monkey bars, riding bigwheels (or tricycles), and running
through a built-in obstacle course on the playground.
Starting with the monkey bars, it's clearly obvious that Karligh is
physically stronger upperbody-wise than Bethany. With surprising ease, Karligh
crossed the monkey bars using nothing but her arms to perform this task.
Bethany on the otherhand was shaky and uncertain from the start. After hanging
from the first bar, she quickly swung her feet .....
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Alcoholism
<view this essay>.... increases the risk of becoming a problem drinker. This may happen because of identification with or imitation of the alcoholic parent, but also because the social and family conditions associated with are among those believed to contribute to the development of . These include family conflict, divorce, and job security. Other problems reported in children of alcoholic parents include hyperactivity, school problems, antisocial behavior, and drug use. Studies indicate that children of alcoholics have an increased risk of even when they have no exposure to drinking parents.
Next, the effects of alcohol on the human body depend on the amount of alcohol in the blo .....
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Dyslexia
<view this essay>.... or listening. Dyslexia is not a disease, therefore
it doesn't have a cure. Dyslexia describes a different kind of mind, often
gifted and productive, that learns differently. During my extensive research of
this topic, I have become very interested and sympathetic for people who have it.
Dyslexia is not the result of low intelligence. The problem is not
behavioral, psychological, motivational, or social. It is not a problem of
vision; people with dyslexia do not “see backward.” Dyslexia results from the
differences in the structure and function of the brain. People with dyslexia
are unique; each having individual strengths and weaknesses. Many d .....
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