lion heart Amanda Chong You came out of the sea‚ skin dappled scales of sunlight; Riding crests‚ waves of fish in your fists. Washed up‚ your gills snapped shut. Water whipped the first breath of your lungs‚ Your lips’ bud teased by morning mists. You conquered the shore‚ its ivory coast. Your legs still rocked with the memory of waves. Sinews of sand ran across your back- Rising runes of your oceanic origins. Your heart thumped- an animal skin drum heralding the coming of a prince. In the jungle
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The Mammalian Heart Analysis Questions 1. The job performed by the atria is collecting blood‚ while the job performed by the ventricles is pumping blood. Since the atria are thin-walled‚ they must function similar to thin bags that collect the blood. The ventricles have thick walls‚ which allow them to contract strongly to be able to pump blood to the rest of the body. 2. The deoxygenated blood must be pumped to the lungs‚ where it becomes oxygenated prior to be being pumped back to the rest
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Heart Disease Kayla Tusa Adelphi University Abstract This paper is aimed to view heart disease and show the effects that it can have on the person who has it. The points made in this paper will show what heart disease does to the body. It shows symptoms and treatments that are used with this disease. It mainly shows the facts about heart disease. The illness in my family that I feel poses the greatest threat to me is heart disease. Heart disease has been in my father’s family for a
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A heart attack is also known as a myocardial infarction. A heart attack is when a part of the heart muscle is damaged or dies because it is not receiving oxygen. A heart attack is the death of heart muscle and it is caused by a sudden block of a coronary artery by a blood clot. Coronary arteries are blood vessels that supply the heart muscle with blood and oxygen. Causing injury to the heart muscle can cause chest main and pressure. If blood flow is not restored within 20 to 40 minutes permanent
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2013 Heart Attacks As many people might not now cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of Women in America. Heart attacks are the leading cause of many deaths. However‚ what is cardiovascular disease and what is a heart attack? A cardiovascular disease is defined as a disease of the heart or blood vessels. A heart attack is defined as a sudden and sometimes fatal occurrence of coronary thrombosis‚ typically resulting in the death of part of heart muscle. Heart attacks and heart disease
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20 The Heart PowerPoint® Lecture Presentations prepared by Jason LaPres Lone Star College—North Harris © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. An Introduction to the Cardiovascular System • Learning Outcomes • 20-1 Describe the anatomy of the heart‚ including vascular supply and pericardium structure‚ and trace the flow of blood through the heart‚ identifying the major blood vessels‚ chambers‚ and heart valves. • 20-2 Explain the events of an action potential in cardiac muscle‚ indicate the
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The heart The heart is the organ that supplies blood and oxygen to all parts of the body. The heart is located in the chest cavity just posterior to the breastbone‚ between the lungs and superior to the diaphragm. The heart is surrounded by a fluid filled sac called the pericardium. Blood is pumped away from the heart through arteries and returns to the heart through veins. The heart is divided into two halves. The halves are then divided into chambers. The upper two chambers of the heart are
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Heart Disease Amber Brooks HCS-245 November 26‚ 2012 Tynan Weed‚ Facilitator Heart Disease Heart disease is what is known as the silent killer; to me I believe this whole heartedly. I hold this particular disease close to my heart because I had a lost due to the disease in my family. I had to realize that it must be really serious for the simple fact that it works so silently and could kill off so easily. I did my research on it and I now know the severity of it. Everyone
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Open heart surgery can be real painful on a family‚ just as it is to the person having it. My father had to undergo this procedure‚ and might have to undergo it again. This was a devasting time for my family and myself. This occurred almost two years ago. The evening before my father’s surgery they had him take a shower or bedside bath. They told him to use a special soap on his chest and legs. This special soap kills the bacteria on your skin and helps to prevent infection after surgery. The
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BTech Project HEART ATTACK DETECTION AND ALERT SYSTEM Submitted by Guided by AKANSHA WAJGE Prof. VIKAS UPADHYAYA AKSHITA BHANDARI DIBYA RAY K. REVATHI NIIT University Neemrana TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 ABSTRACT………………………………………….4 INTRODUCTION…………………………………5 OBJECTIVE……………………………6 CIRCUIT DIAGRAM………………
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