The second remedy is that the glands under the skin secrete sweat onto the surface of the skin in order to increase heat loss by evaporation if the body is too hot. And thirdly the capillaries near the surface can open when the body needs to cool of Continue Reading...
a&P Lab Design Project -- A&P Lab Ammonia (NH3) is produced by cells located throughout the body; most of the production occurring in the intestines, liver, and the kidney, where it is used to produce urea. Ammonia is particularly toxic to Continue Reading...
However, all muscles are ultimately controlled by the central nervous system. Because the muscles are attached to the skeleton, all skeletal movements can be traced back to the central nervous system. The integumentary system is one of the body's pr Continue Reading...
body and the function of Homeostasis Define the process of homeostasis, then list and explain five homeostatic functions that our bodies perform. According to Steve Nakoneshny, who quotes a definition from Thibodeau & Patton, homeostasis can b Continue Reading...
The first heart sound is generally longer and lower than the second, producing a heartbeat that sounds like lub-dup, lub-dup, lub-dup. Blood pressure, the pressure exerted on the walls of blood vessels by the flowing blood, also varies during diffe Continue Reading...
Zoology Relics of Human Evolution Vemeonasal organ. The vemeonasal organ is a little pit on each side of the septum that is lined with nonfunctioning chemoreceptors. It may have been used for pheromone-detecting ability. Extrinsic ear muscles. The Continue Reading...
Hormone (or endocrine) disruptors interfere with the normal functioning of the endocrine system. They can: mimic a natural hormone and thus fool the body into responding a certain way, interfere with the reception of hormones by hormone receptors, d Continue Reading...
Anatomy Affects Human Culture and Behavior The human anatomy plays an extremely important part in human culture and behavior. One of the indisputable facets about human anatomy that helps to distinguish it from that of other living creatures is the Continue Reading...
Organism Physiology The Planarian or "cross-eyed flatworm" is a relatively simple invertebrate organism, belonging to the animal kingdom and the phylum of Platyhelminthes which covers all flatworms. The phylum of Platyhelminthes contains four separa Continue Reading...
Night time implies very low levels of light and therefore darkness. In this period, the human eye relies fully on the rod physiology so it no longer searches for color and alters our interpretation of the external environment by reducing levels of Continue Reading...
blood vessel resistance and heart function. In the paper, four peer reviewed journals are looked at to highlight any potential relationship between blood vessel resistance and the heart's functioning. In normal functioning of the heart, there are c Continue Reading...
Cardiovascular system allows humans to survive. It is an essential component to the very complicated machinery that guides the functioning of the human body. It is this reason that has led to numerous research projects in order to discover news ways Continue Reading...
Water: The Only Liquid the Body Needs To live a fully healthy and functional life, water is indispensible. From the point in history when primitive species moved from the oceans to land, a major factor of survival has continually been stopping dehyd Continue Reading...
Role of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Endothelial Functions Role of fatty acid on endothelial functions Antioxidants and Marine N-3 Fatty Acids Improves Endothelial Function in Hypercholesterolemic People The hypercholesterolemic people refer to the indi Continue Reading...
Anatomy and Physiology of the Skeletal and Muscular SystemsIntroductionToday, human health is being threatened on multiple fronts and it is not surprising that there is growing interest in developing a better understanding about the human bodys vario Continue Reading...
The circulatory or cardiovascular system is responsible for moving nutrients, wastes and gases between body cells, transporting blood across the whole body and battling disease (Circulatory System). Its principal elements are the heart, numerous bloo Continue Reading...
). These complications will be discussed in the discussion section of this paper. Discussion Taking into account the physiological functioning of these bacteria on the human sensory and muscles muscle system it becomes clear that that this can be a Continue Reading...
For obese individuals on the Atkins diet, a moderate exercise program that allows the body to burn fat rather than glycogen can be beneficial, since they would be able to exercise longer. For trained athletes, a higher level of exercise at a longer Continue Reading...
These follicles gradually grow with the resultant release of oestrogen into the blood stream. At around the 10th day one of the follicles becomes distinctly larger than the others. This large follicle is known as the dominant follicle. The other fol Continue Reading...
Muscle fiber type and performance The body majorly has two types of muscles, the slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscle fibers. Most people have, on estimation, 50% slow-twitch fibers and 50% fast-twitch ones. This however can significantly change depend Continue Reading...
ANATOMY Anatomy: Special SensesPrompt 1The human body has two senses types: special and general. Special senses include various body organs to feel the surroundings, for example, balancing, seeing, tasting, and smell, whereas general senses are only Continue Reading...
Archeology THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY Understanding the evolution of humanity has been one of the most critical quests for most individuals in the current society. The intersection between environmental influen Continue Reading...
Pressure on the superior vena cava may produce SVC syndrome, a swelling of the head and arms. SVC syndrome involving the brain can be fatal and must be treated immediately. But enlarged lymphatic tissue in the chest cavity generally tends to displac Continue Reading...
Neuroanatomy of PainThe article by Lin et al. (2020) entitled \\\"Ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve stimulation for knee pain: a mini-review of the neuroanatomy and the evidence from clinical studies\\\" was published in the journal \\\"Pain Medicin Continue Reading...
The specific way that individual behavior interacts with the group engenders mutually supportive behaviors. For example, one of the central theoretical theses comes from the early 1950s and is called the Social Learning Theory. This has a number of Continue Reading...
Menopause: A Short History From Human Anatomy and Physiology, Spence and Mason, 2nd Edition from 1983, comes this description of Menopause. At about age 50, the ovarian and menstrual cycles gradually become irregular. Ovulation fails to occur durin Continue Reading...
Revolutions The history of modern human civilization reflects the gradual evolution of thoughts, ideas, political reform, and technological progress. At various times, specific periods of change were important enough to have been recorded as revolu Continue Reading...
Neuroscience and Human Development One of the most noticeable aspects of human beings involves the changes in shape, size, form, and function of the individual from a newly formed fetus to a fully grown adult. As the single most successful organism Continue Reading...
Melatonin & the Pineal Gland The focus of this work is to examine melatonin and the pineal gland. Towards this end, this study examines the literature in this area of study and reports on the findings. The work of Turgut and Kumar (1996) address Continue Reading...
Theoretical Perspective of the Biological Approach to Personality Psychology Personality is defined as a person's exceptional deviation on the general evolutionary design for human temperament. A personality trait refers to a durable disposition to Continue Reading...
The authors were trying to develop a system of estimating and indexing muscle fatigue rates during static muscle contraction. The results of this study indicated that estimations were reasonably successful with some limitations that were noted. One Continue Reading...
Elegans; and anterior and posterior patterning of the hox-mediated development pathway group in vertebrates and insects (Pasquinelli, Hunter and Bracht). Other hypothesized functions include regulation of "viral function and human cancer" (Miska). Continue Reading...
relationship among Boyle's, Dalton's, and Henry's Laws and the physiology of the lung. Robert Boyle investigated the relationship between the volume of a dry ideal gas and its pressure. Since there are four variables that can be altered in a gas sam Continue Reading...
Prescription, Nonprescription and Herbal Medicines Prescription, Non-prescription and Herbal Medications: Exploring Interactions in the Geriatric Population Geriatric medicine, generally referred to as just "geriatrics" is a branch of internal medi Continue Reading...
Jerry Coyne's Why Evolution is True I understand it contradicts the account in the Bible and other holy texts, if one takes a literalist interpretive stance, but given that most texts have more significant internal conflicts, I did not see why this Continue Reading...
Osmoregulation Endocrines Osmoregulation Osmoregulation is the process, by which the body adjusts to a change in an environment of different water volume and amount of solutes in a cells and body fluid of organisms including vertebrates. Vertebrate Continue Reading...
Professional Development Briefing: Cognitive and Affective Psychology in Professional PracticeIntroductionProblem-solving, creativity, decision-making, reasoning, and intelligence (both human and artificial) are linked domains that impact human behav Continue Reading...
fantastical voyage in Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver encounters a race of highly intelligent horses whose extreme rationality seduces the protagonist. Gulliver's increasing hatred for humanity becomes a dark vehicle for Swift's through satire of human Continue Reading...
