Renal System Study Guide Med/Surg I Major Functions of Kidney: Regulation of Homeostasis -Filters blood & regulates contents (water content & blood volume) -Maintain acid-base balance -Control fluid & electrolytes -Excrete metabolic waste products -Control BP (renin-angiotensin-aldosterone) Urinary System Structure: Kidneys (produce urine)‚ Ureters (transport urine to bladder)‚ Bladder (stores urine)‚ Urethra (conduct urine outside body) *Nephron- working unit of kidney *Kidneys receive
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Chronic Diseases SCI/163 May 16‚ 2013 Chronic Diseases There are many chronic diseases plaguing our society. One of the most notable diseases is cancer. Cancer affects many different organs and tissue throughout the body‚ thus there are many different types of cancer. Recently‚ cancer and the treatments for cancer have directly affected my life; therefore I chose to take the health risk assessment on breast cancer. After discovering in October 2011 that my mother had breast cancer I started
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SCI/163 Chronic Diseases Lung Cancer Chronic diseases such as heart disease‚ cancer‚ and diabetes are the leading causes of death and disability in the United States. In this essay we will describe a chronic disease that affects thousands of people every day and that is the lung cancer. We will discuss the risk factors‚ treatment options and the daily choices we can make to reduce the risk of lung cancer. Lung is the essential respiration organ
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The bad kind of stress is called distress. Acute stress is your body’s immediate reaction to a new challenge‚ event‚ or demand. Episodic acute stress is when acute stress happens frequently. People who are pessimistic tend to have acute stress. Chronic stress is stress that is constant and doesn’t go away. When you feel anxious or in danger‚ your body produces hormones such as cortisol. This hormone may cause you to get sweaty palms and have rapid or shallow breathing. Stress hormones are released
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which nature‚ through its genetics‚ has determined. If we interfere in the natural order of development by pulling a petal forward prematurely or out of order‚ we ruin the development of the entire flower” (Boeree‚ 2003). I will observe an eleven year old boy using Erik Erikson’s psychosocial developmental theory. Erik Erikson is a Freudian ego-psychologist who believed that some of Freud’s theories were correct. Erikson expanded Freud ’s genital stage into adolescence plus three stages of adulthood
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Exercise 9: Renal System Physiology: Activity 3: Renal Response to Altered Blood Pressure Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 25% by answering 1 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. If all other variables are kept constant‚ how does the afferent arteriole radius affect the rate of glomerular filtration (select all that apply)? Your answer : b. A decreased afferent arteriole radius will increase the rate of glomerular filtration. Correct answer: c. An increased afferent arteriole radius will increase
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OLD SPICE: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like/Responses It wasn’t just "Hello‚ ladies!" but "Hello‚ everyone!" Wieden & Kennedy’s pop-culture-infiltrating commercial and the "Responses" follow-up capitalized on the beloved Isaiah Mustafa’s character and the immediacy of social-media channels‚ creating‚ over a period of three days‚ more than 150 tailor-made YouTube responses from the Man to fans. The latter drummed up tons of media attention for Old Spice and generated some impressive statistics:
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Human Remains Clonycaven Man/ Old Croghan Man 1) The site of discovery and the events which brought the remains to light 2) Scientific dating techniques 3) Forensic analysis of the remains to help determines the cause and context of death New technology‚ scientific dating and forensic analysis has made an immense impact on the development of and understanding of ancient human remains. This can be seen in the excavation of Clonycaven Man and Old Croghan Man who were discovered in 2003
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A comparison between a girl of 8 years old and one of 16 years old‚ talking about who they are Is there any developmental trend? Abstract: Two girls‚ an 8 year old and a sixteen year old were interviewed talking about who they are‚ following Rosenberg’s categories .It was found that there is a developmental trend between the girls. The locus of self – knowledge shifts with the age from relating on others to relating to the self. Introduction: Younger children focus on describing external characteristics
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are completely different. The Scarlet Pimpernel took place in France during the French Revolution. On the other hand‚ The Old Man by the Sea took place in the Atlantic Ocean. In The Scarlet Pimpernel it was a much more crowded situation‚ with groups of people throughout the book. Although‚ The Old Man by the Sea was a much lonelier situation where it would be just the old man out in the ocean alone for long periods of time. While reading the Scarlet Pimpernel you learned that it was a harder language
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