Physio Cardio Lab Report Answers Activity 1 Questions: 1. Explain how the body establishes a pressure gradient for fluid flow. Pressure gradient is the flow rate of a liquid through a pipe. This is directly proportional to the difference between the pressures at the two ends of the pipe and inversely proportional to the pip’s resistance. The pressure gradient is directly dependent upon blood vessel radius which essentially controls blood flow. The bigger the blood vessel radius‚ the more
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Sciatic Nerve pain in your lower back that sometimes radiates down your leg and you find it impossible to sit down comfortably? Relief is on the way! The Sciatic Nerve is actually three nerve endings that exit the base of your spinal column‚ then travel across your buttocks and down the backs of your legs. Along this path your Sciatic Nerve passes through several thick muscles. When these thick muscles‚ like your Hamstrings or Piriformis Muscle tighten up‚ they can swell and press on the nerve which
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A Reading of Updike’s “Ex-Basketball Player” The purpose of this essay is to inform the reader about a poem by John Updike‚ called “Ex-Basketball player”. The speaker in the poem talks about a man named Flick Webb and his apathetic life. He informs the reader about Flick Webb’s exceptional talent as a basketball player in high school. Towards the end of the poem the realization is that Flick Webb’s exceptional basketball talent had been berried under his reality of life. In the eyes of the
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sciatic nerve‚ speed of transmission and degree of myelination can all have an effect on the sciatic nerve and therefore the peak contractile force of B. Marinus. The diameter of the axon in the sciatic nerve would impact how fast the action potential is conceived down the axon to the synaptic cleft and muscle (Firmin‚ L. 2014). If one of the toads had a smaller axon diameter it would allow for resistance to movement to occur due to friction. The diameter of the axon in the sciatic nerve would therefore
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Do vitamins ward off diseases? Introduction: Living in the 21st century is a little dangerous. Our health or well-being isn’t really the first thing on our minds. I will be informing you of three different vitamins that could be beneficial to you. The three I will be discussing are vitamin b‚ c‚ and d. As always though‚ please consult your doctor before starting any new regimen. I am an Early Childhood Major; Not a doctor. Before beginning I have a video to start us off. In the US‚ Alzheimer’s
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Ex 16.2 (Basic Types of Manufacturing Costs) Into which of the three elements of manufacturing cost would each of the following be classified? a. Tubing used in manufacturing bicycles. b. Wages paid by an automobile manufacturer to employees who test-drive completed automobiles. c. Property taxes on machinery. d. Gold bullion used by a jewelry manufacturer. e. Wages of assembly-line workers who package frozen food. f. Salary of plant superintendent. g. Electricity used in factory operations
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In the novel Girl‚ Stolen by April Henry‚ the main theme is "Do not act on impulse. Think things through." This means that don’t do the first thing that comes to mind. Throughout the book‚ the characters show multiple examples of that. One example of someone being an example of why to not act on impulse is Griffin. If he didn’t take Cheyenne’s step-mother‚ Danielle‚ car Griffin wouldn’t be in a position of kidnapping a teenage girl. "Look‚ it’s an accident you’re here. I just wanted the car‚ not
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Critical Lens Essay 12/8/10 American poet Robert Elliot Gonzales once wrote‚ “A good many family trees are shady.” What he means is that parents do not always give their children what is most necessary to achieve in life. In Ex-Basketball Player by John Updike and Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller the main characters lack self-esteem and cannot fulfill their dreams primarily because of their lack of familial support. More specifically‚ the protagonists‚ Flick Webb and Biff Lowman‚ suffer
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There are three main nerves in your hand radial nerve‚ median nerve‚ and ulnar nerve. Each one of these gives movement and feeling to different areas of the hand. The ulnar nerve is one of the three main nerves in your arm. It travels from your neck down into your hand. The most common place for this nerve is behind the inside part of the elbow. The radial nerve descends down the arm with in the triceps with in the upper arm. Then moves down the arm within the humerus also known as the radial
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DOI: 3/13/2014. The patient is a 52-year old right-hand dominant male service employee who sustained injury to his lower back while lifting a video server. MRI of the lumbar spine without contrast dated 04/02/14 showed a posterior protrusion at L4-5 with a posterior annular fissure. There is also mild to moderate spinal stenosis at this level. In addition‚ there is a disc osteophyte complex and disc space narrowing at L5-S1 with mild spinal stenosis and left greater than right mild foraminal stenosis
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