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    Heart Transplant

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    To:Operations Manager From: Lead Surgeon Date: September 13‚ 2012 Subject: Heart Transplant This evening of September 13‚ 2012 at 0900hrs we received word of an available heart. After further review of each matching candidates‚ we have decided that the 12 year young lady named Lisa will be receiving this heart. If Lisa does not receive this heart she has a high chance of not even making it to her 20s. She has suffered many health issues in her short life due to various viral infections

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    Morphology of the Heart

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    1 The heart is a muscular organ found in all animals with a circulatory system. The heart pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by contractions. Cardiac means “related to the heart”‚ and comes from the Greek. The vertebrate heart is made up of cardiac muscle‚ it’s an involuntary striated muscle tissue found only in this organ‚ and connective tissue. The male’s heart weighs 9-11 ounces‚ and the female’s heart weighs about 11-12 ounces. A person’s blood pressure has major effects on their heart;

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    Structure of Heart

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    SURFACE VIEW OF HEART Position‚ Shape and Size of the Heart: The human heart is located between the lungs in the thoracic cavity (i.e. it is not situated on the left side of the chest). The heart is a hollow‚ fibro-muscular organ and is somewhat conical in shape. It is about the size of one’s fist‚ measures about 12 cm in length and 9 cm in breadth. Its weight is about 300 g in an adult. The heart is enclosed in pericardium (a double- layered membranous sac). It protects the heart from mechanical

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    Telltale Heart

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    those who commit harmful deeds and expect to feel glory instead of feeling guilty. In other words‚ those people will surely be surprised to find that guilt is following closely behind‚ lurking in the dark shadows of their heart. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story‚ The Tell-Tale Heart‚ presents the reader with a main character much like this. In this story‚ there is a troubled man who has been stereotyped as a crazy person in the past. However‚ he insists that he is not; he is simply advanced in his senses

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    character is isolated from the rest of the characters in the story. Alienation can be caused by several things‚ such as abusive relationships like in the story The Color Purple‚ or poor leadership such as the story‚ Lord of the Flies‚ in which both protagonists were alienated by their own people. In the book‚ "The Color Purple"‚ Celie‚ the protagonist‚ is alienated by most of the important men in her family. It causes her to be very passive and defenseless. She is aware that people see her as a

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    Heart of Darkness

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    Throughout the novel Heart of Darkness Conrad uses the motif of the heart to thoroughly explain how dark people and places really can be. Conrad uses the heart as a symbol for the entire continent of Africa. The heart is also used to show what the heart of mankind truly is. Another use of the heart is as a representation of the inner station‚ which shows the darkness of exploitations through Kurtz. The different uses of the heart are amplified through such literary devices as irony‚ imagery‚ and

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    The Liberation Of Black Women’s In Color Purple by Alice Walker On October 29st 2012‚ The Color Purple thoroughly focuses on a life of Celie‚ an African American woman who is struggling to develop her sense of selfhood. As a black woman growing up in the Deep South during the 1940s‚ Celie has gone through many difficulties before she could establish herself as an independent woman. All through the story‚ Celie is presented at the very bottom of the social hierarchy. At the same time with being

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    USMLE heart

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    Heart 1. Blockage of which of the following arteries would lead to ischemia of the apex of the heart? a. Anterior interventricular (descending) b. Left circumflex c. Posterior interventricular (descending) d. Right marginal e. Right coronary 2. If the ductus arteriosus does not spontaneously close off soon after birth (to become the ligamentum arteriosum)‚ it may have to be surgically ligated. When clamping or ligating it‚ what important structure immediately behind it must be identified

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    The Shifting Heart

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    The Shifting Heart Essay The Shifting heart is set in 1956 in the working class suburb of Collingwood‚ Melbourne. The play addresses racism treatment towards immigrants in post war Australia. Refugees were given jobs as labourers. The play is written as a response to the violent death of a polish immigrant‚ who violently took his own life at Christmas. The play itself is also set on

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    Heart Vocabulary

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    walled tubes forming part if the circulation system by which blood is conveyed from the heart to all the parts of the body 4. Bundle of His Collection of heart muscles specialized for electrical conduction 5. Capillaries Any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules Heart vocabulary: Inferior vena cava A large vein carrying deoxygenated blood into the heart from the lower body Left atrium Receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins

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