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    Title : Comparing the rates of pulmonary and cutaneous respiration in frogs Introduction Frogs are amphibians that live in moist environments to support one of their key mechanisms of respiration. Frogs have the ability to breathe many diverse ways‚ due to their unusual life cycle and aquatic and terrestrial environment. The Order Anura shows the extreme anatomical and physiological diversity. Many frogs use lungs to respire‚ bringing in air through their nares‚ mouth‚ into the trachea and then to

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    Fantastic Voyage Natasha Vargas Anatomy & Physiology II Unit #4 Assignment Kaplan University March 25‚ 2014 Hello Everyone‚ Welcome to the fantastic voyage. The ride of your life! As I show you a tour guide into the body of a healthy female. I will show you the paths to take to find the bacterium that is invading the lower lobe of the right lung and we must make it out of the body through the nose. Now let’s start in the femoral vein located in the thigh. As we sit

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    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common chronic inflammatory lung diseases in the world. It has been suggested that COPD cases represent 95% among all cases of chronic lower lung diseases. COPD is usually represented as several lung diseases including emphysema‚ chronic bronchitis‚ and refractory asthma. Since COPD is a chronic disease‚ it may have an effect on patients especially on their health related quality of life (HRQoL). HRQoL is defined as the discernments

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    RESPIRATORY SYSTEM The respiratory system consists of all the organs involved in breathing. These include the nose‚ pharynx‚ larynx‚ trachea‚ bronchi and lungs. The respiratory system does two very important things: it brings oxygen into our bodies‚ which we need for our cells to live and function properly; and it helps us get rid of carbon dioxide‚ which is a waste product of cellular function. The nose‚ pharynx‚ larynx‚ trachea and bronchi all work like a system of pipes through which

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    Smooth muscle- are involuntary muscles found in the walls of hollow organs like the stomach‚ intestines or bladder. Smooth Muscles have many functions in the body‚ but one of the functions of smooth muscles in the bladder contracts to push urine out of the body. Skeletal muscle- Skeletal Muscles are muscles attached to the skeleton. The skeletal muscles main function is to contract to support the skeleton in movement. Skeletal muscles are voluntary because we have complete control of the movements

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    Herlihy: The Human Body in Health and Illness‚ 4th Edition Answer Key - Study Guide Chapter 1: Introduction to the Human Body Part I: Mastering the Basics Matching—General Terms 1. D 2. A 3. C 4. D 5. B 6. B 7. D 8. A 9. C 10. A Matching—Anatomical Terms 1. H 2. A 3. G 4. J 5. D 6. B 7. E 8. F 9. L 10. I 11. L 12. K 13. C 14. C 15. E 16. D 17. A 18. D Read the Diagram 1. E 2. C 3. D 4. G 5. A 6. I 7. J 8. H Matching—Regional Body Terms 1. D 2. K 3

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    1. George Brown‚ 72 years of age‚ is a male patient who is admitted with the diagnosis of acute pulmonary edema secondary to acute left ventricular heart failure. The patient has a history of coronary artery disease that has been treated medically. The patient is anxious‚ pale‚ cold‚ clammy‚ and dyspneic. The vital signs are: blood pressure 88/50 mm Hg‚ heart rate 110 bpm‚ respiratory rate 32 breaths/min‚ and temperature 97°F. There are bubbling crackles and wheezing throughout the lung fields and

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    vertical section through a human heart. For Examiner’s Use aorta pulmonary vein left ventricle Fig. 1.1 (a) On the diagram‚ use label lines to label these parts of the heart. bicuspid valve pulmonary artery [3] septum (b) Explain why the wall of the left ventricle is thicker than the wall of the right ventricle. [2] (c) Describe two differences between the structure of the aorta and the pulmonary vein. 1. 2. [2] (d) The heart muscle is supplied with blood through

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    The cardiovascular system is the system that keeps life pumping through you with its complex pathways of veins‚ arteries‚ and capillaries. The heart‚ blood vessels‚ and blood help to transport vital nutrients throughout the body as well as remove metabolic waste. They also help to protect the body and regulate body temperature. Bacterial endocarditis is an infection of the inner surface of the heart or the heart valves caused by bacteria usually found in the mouth‚ intestinal tract or urinary tract

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    The accuracy of the ‘Modified Evans Blue Dye Test’‚ for detecting aspiration pneumonia: A literature review.Objective: The ‘Modified Evans Blue Dye Test’ is a common procedure‚ used to detect aspiration pneumonia. The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of ‘Modified Evans Blue Dye Test’‚ across published clinical studies. Method: The speech pathologist conducted a literature review. Articles were collected from a variety of resources and analysed - using Dollaghan’s (2005) meta-analysis

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