THE SEARCH FOR BETTER HEALTH 1.What is a healthy organism? Discuss the difficulties in defining the terms ‘health’ and ‘disease’ * Health – state of physical‚ mental and social wellbeing. It is not just absence of disease * disease – any condition which effects the functioning of any part of a living organism * difficulties in defining health and disease; * health 1) the definition of health varies with age eg stiffness in the joints is probably more common in a 90yo
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Water Pollution and Its Effects on the Environment Water is probably the most important resource we as people have. Humans can survive without food for several weeks‚ but without water we would die in less than a week. On a slightly less dramatic note‚ millions of liters of water are needed every day worldwide for washing‚ irrigating crops‚ and cooling industrial processes‚ not to mention leisure industries such as swimming pools and water-sports centers. Despite our dependence on water‚ we use
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Monsoon maladies – Enemies in the Rain Monsoon brings with it the much-awaited relief from the long spell of sultry‚ scorching summer. When the season of rains people are all set to enjoy it to the hilt irrespective of their age. There are people whose idea of enjoying the drizzle is gorging on their favorite ‘pakoras’ and ‘chai’‚ while watching the lovely weather from the comfort of their homes. while there are also people who want to go out and enjoy the season dancing in the rain. Children love
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Medical Jargon A abduction - to move a limb or some other body part away from the midline of the body ABG - arterial blood gas reading acetaminophen - a nonsalicylate analgesic-antipyretic (Tylenol) ACE - angiotension-converting enzyme ACLS - advanced cardiac life support; includes electricity (defibrillator) and drugs for life threatening arrhythmias acidotic - abnormally high acidity of body fluids and tissues acute - sudden‚ intense flare-up adenosine - a drug used to help a patient
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Sam Rausser Wednesday‚ August 17‚ 2011 3:38 PM Once glucose is made‚ glucose molecules can be converted (by plants) to… 1) monosaccharides‚ like fructose 2) Disaccharides a. Maltose (glu‐glu) seeds b. Sucrose (glu‐fru) sugar cane‚ sugar beets 3) Polysaccharides a. Starch‚ food storage in roots (chains of glucose) b. Cellulose‚ plant structure (chains of glucose) 4) Amino Acids a. Glucose + N from ground 5) Lipids‚ specifically oils which are energy source in seeds & phospholipids found in membranes
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Day 1: Biology of Animals Deuterostomes develop anus from blastopore Protostomes develop mouth from blastopore. Presentation: Overview of Prokaryotes‚ Protists‚ and Fungi I. Prokaryotes (ex. Bacteria) Characteristics -Unicellular -Small (0.5-5um) -Know shapes (ex. Spherical rod shaped and spiral) cocci‚ spirilla‚ bacilli -Cell wall‚ salt‚ peptidoglycan‚ Gram stain‚ virulence. Gram positive bacteria take up the Gram stain and turn purple‚ peptidoglycan traps crystal violet‚ very
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A Differential Diagnosis Mnemonics Handbook - and the Parts of the Medical History By Allan Platt‚ PA-C‚ MMSc Mnemonics are memory tools to help in the memorization of long lists. These differential diagnosis and medical history mnemonics are intended to aid memorization. These mnemonics are not all inclusive and should be used in conjunction with standard textbooks of medical diagnosis and differential diagnosis. The electronic text in PDF or word has hyperlinks to navigate. Index Acute Abdominal
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1. Procedure #1 detected 50/100 true positives and 100/100 true negatives. Procedure #2 detected 80/100 true positives and 70/100 true negatives. b. procedure 2 is more sensitive 2. TP/TP+FN = ? b. specificity 3. What might the following indicate? urine: RBCs‚ WBCs‚ nitrite‚ bacteria a. pyelonephritis 4. Why is albumin the first protein to be detected in tests for renal failure? b. its molecular size is smallest 5. Cortisol excess will result in _____ a. hypernatremia c. elevated glucose
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BACTERIA. CLASSIFICATION Bacteria are extremely small and some can be just seen with the naked human eye. They are much smaller than eukaryotic cells but are still very complex despite their size. .the cell is surrounded by a cell membrane that enclosees the bacteria cell. They are single celled organisms. Bacteria are prokaryotic cells and therefore do not have a nucleus and do not have a lot of organelles like: mitochondria‚ chloroplasts‚ and other organelles that are usually found in eukaryotic
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The Search for Better Health 1. What is a healthy organism? Discuss the difficulties of defining the terms ‘health’ and ‘disease’ Health is a state of physical‚ mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity. Disease is any condition that affects the proper functioning of a body. It is any disturbance of structure or function of the body of an organism generally associated with characteristic of symptoms and structural changes to the body. These
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