Fantastic Voyage By: Chantea Braddock HS130 Section # 9 Unit 9 Assignment Kaplan University 03/05/2012 Once again my mini sub and I will be miniaturized making us 8 microns long and witnessing another Fantastic Voyage in a human body. This time I will be swallowed by a 55 year old man‚ while he is eating his meal consisting of a hamburger‚ French fries‚ and a root beer. I will be piloting my sub through his gastrointestinal tract to monitor the digestion of his meal‚ I will be describing
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Skeletal System - The skeleton has over 200 bones. Its main functions are: protection‚ shape‚ support‚ movement and blood production. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/pe/appliedanatomy/2_anatomy_skeleton_rev1.shtml Skeletal System - The skeleton has over 200 bones. Its main functions are: protection‚ shape‚ support‚ movement and blood production. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/pe/appliedanatomy/2_anatomy_skeleton_rev1.shtml Muscular System - the main functions of the
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Identification renal stone size and density with computed radiography and computed tomography respectively to determine its fragility by ESWL Dr.Haider Qasim Hamood MBChB; DMRD; FIBMS (Radio-Diagnosis) Abstract: Background: Renal stone is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen. There are many types of renal stones depending on stone chemical components those including calcium oxalate stone‚ struvite stone‚ uric acid stone and cystine stone. Spiral computed tomography (CT) and computed
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They can vary from Urinary tract infections‚ wound infections and lung infections just to name a few. A most encountered infection is a urinary tract infection. Which is encountered in various ways. A urinary tract infection involves the kidneys‚ ureters‚ bladder or urethra these organs assist in eliminating fluids from the body. A urinary tract infection can be acquired in hospitals from catheter insertion. Which is a indwelling catheter this is used when the patient is not able to urinate
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in small amounts of blood‚ pus‚ and bacteria in the urine. This can cause pain with urination‚ a sense of needing to urinate frequently‚ and sometimes cramping in the lower abdomen. The infection can involve the urethra‚ the bladder‚ sometimes the ureters‚ and occasionally the kidneys. If kidneys are involved you may have fever and chills. What causes it? Most of these infections are causes by bacteria that are normally present in the intestine. Because women have a short urethra which opens near
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likelihood of pyelonephrosis include diabetes‚ obesity‚ instrumentation‚ and obstructive conditions. Obstruction is the most common predisposing risk factor for urinary tract infections in adults and can be caused by urolithiaisis‚ pregnancy‚ and ureters or urethral stricture anomalies. However‚ Chishti‚ Maul‚ Nazario‚ Bennett‚ and Kiessling (2010) state that vesicular
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-Blood enters each kidney via renal artery and leaves each kidney via renal vein -Urine exists the kidney through a duct called the ureter and the uruters of both kidneys drain into a common urinary bladder -Kidney consists of outer renal cortex and inner renal medulla -Nephron is functional unit of vertebrate kidney -Consists of single long tubule and ball of capillaries called the glomerulus -Bowman’s capsule surrounds the glomerulus -Kidney regulates the composition of the blood and produce
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Digestive and Urinary Systems The digestive system and the urinary system are two very important systems for the human body. The digestive system helps use break down food to help nourish our bodies and give us energy. The urinary system helps are body gets rid of any waste produces that our body and digestive system doesn’t use. This paper will explain these two systems and how they work. The digestive system consists of seven parts in digesting food. The first part in digestive system starts
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Questions Circulatory Compare and contrast veins and arteries in blood traveling to or from the heart and containing oxygenated or deoxygenated blood (and the exception). The arteries job is to take oxygenated blood and transport if to the other organs and cells of the body‚ away from the heart. Then the veins carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart from the organs. The two exceptions to this is the pulmonary arteries and veins. The pulmonary arteries take deoxygenated blood and delivers it to
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Mammalian Kidney Investigation Background Information: The kidneys are dark red bean -shaped organs that are a very important pair of organs that perform many functions. The kidneys have a convex side and a concave side. They are each about the size of a fist. The kidneys are located near the middle back of a human‚ just below the rib cage‚ one on each side of the spine. One kidney is located below the spleen on the left side of the body‚ whereas the other kidney is located just below the liver
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