Emerging Concepts for the Axial Age Religion has not always existed in the world according to academia. Preceding religion was an age of magic where man attempted to manipulate nature by force with enchantments alongside preliterate religious activity.1 Once people realized the failure in their “magic”‚ religion started evolving and an appeal to a more superior‚ supernatural divinity that ultimately controlled their security. The intricate pattern of ritual
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associated cartilages and joints of human body. Together these structures form the human skeleton. Skeleton can be defined as the hard framework of human body around which the entire body is built. Almost all the hard parts of human body are components of human skeletal system. Joints are very important because they make the hard and rigid skeleton allow different types of movements at different locations. If the skeleton were without joints‚ no movement would have taken place and the significance of human
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Bone is a specialised‚ strong‚ flexible connective tissue and is the main component of the adult skeleton. Unlike hyaline and fibrocartilage‚ bone is supplied with nerves and blood vessels. Epiphyseal veins carry the blood away from the long bones of the body and periosteal arteries‚ which are also accompanied by nerves‚ carry blood to the bones. It provides support and gives the structural framework to the body‚ it acts as a protective cover for internal organs such as the heart‚ brain and lungs
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DEFORMITIES OF SKELETON: Human skeleton may sometime suffer from some deformities. These may be congenital due to some sort of genetic disorder or may be the result of hormonal deficiencies or simply malnutrition. Some of the common skeleton related diseases are as follows: • Disc slip • Osteoarthritis • Spondylitis • Sciatica • Rheumatism Disc slip: Vertebrae of our body are provided with intervertebral discs which act as shock absorber. They provided mobility to
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The musculoskeletal system includes bones‚ muscles‚ and connective tissues that all work together to provide the framework for the body‚ create body movements‚ store minerals and lipids‚ produce blood cells‚ and protest the body’s organs. The bones‚ muscles‚ and connective tissue comprise approximately sixty percent of the body’s mass. There are 206 bones and about 700 named muscles of three different types: skeletal‚ cardiac and smooth muscles (Taylor). Musculoskeletal disorders consist of minor
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Year: NTDC Year 2 Module: Functional and biochemical imbalances Assignment: Osteoporosis: A Functional Medicine Approach WORD COUNT: 2134 Student Number: 6045 Date: 6th December 2012 Skills and areas for development that were targeted in this assignment : Thorough research of the topic using a variety of sources. Submission of this work as a requirement of the NTDC is a declaration‚ by the student identified by the student number above‚ that:
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of bone is an osteon‚ which is made up of concentric lamellae of compact bone surrounded by a Haversian canal. There are two components to bone‚ cortical and trabecular. Cortical bone is dense and surrounds the marrow space‚ making up 80% of the skeleton. Trabecular or cancellous bone consists of plates and rods which are arranged in a honeycomb like interconnected network and interspersed
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he backbone (vertebral column) is the central axis of the skeleton. It extends from the base of the skull to the bottom of the pelvis. It consists of 26 individual bones grouped into five separate regions; The vertebrae‚ twelve thoracic vertebrae‚ five lumbar vertebrae‚ one sacral bone and one coccygeal bone. (Cinnamon L. VanPutte‚ Jennifer L. Regan‚ Andrew F. Russo‚ McGraw-Hill‚ 2010.) The Vertebral column also host major curvatures; The sacral and thoracic both concaving anteriorly and the lumbar
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Characteristics of the Axial Age Karl Jasper defines Axial Age as‚ in his book “The Origin and Goal of History”‚ intellectual revolution that swept Eurasia from around 600 to 200 B.C.E. (Getz et al.‚ 2008‚ p.136).In fact we can see a connection between this definition and the wordAxial’s origin. The word axial derives from axis and pivot‚ in which axis means a straight line or a center point‚ and pivot means turning on a defined point. I believe the straight line stands for ongoing traditions and
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left from everything he has built till now would be ash… Yes‚ he has a skeleton in the closet; a secret source of shame which could have terrifying consequences if revealed. No wonder John gets so anxious about it and diligent in his effort to conceal it. The proverb was coined in the 19th century in England and it is used to describe situation such as the one John is facing. So‚ my dear friends‚ I hope you don’t have a skeleton in the closet… During my childhood
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