A urinary tract infection or UTI is an infection that can happen anywhere along the urinary tract. Your urinary tract is the system that makes urine and carries it out of your body. Urinary tract infections can have different names‚ depending on what part of the urinary tract is infected. The infection can be in the bladder‚ kidneys‚ ureters‚ or the urethra. If the infection is in the bladder it is called cystitis or a bladder infection. If the infection is in the kidneys is it called pyelonephritis
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6/7/2011 Overview of Anatomy and Physiology • Anatomy: The study of structures The Human Body: An Orientation • Subdivisions: – Gross or macroscopic anatomy (ex: regional‚ systemic anatomy) – Microscopic (ex: cytology‚ histology) – Developmental (ex: embryology) CH 1 1 Overview of Anatomy and Physiology 2 Overview of Anatomy and Physiology • Essential tools for the study of anatomy: – Mastery of anatomical terminology – Observation – Manipulation – Palpation –
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The urinary tract uses urination as a cleaning mechanism‚ which acts as host defense against bacterial growth and infection. When urine is released from the urethra‚ any microbes that may have previously entered or were introduced into the sterile environment of the urinary tract are washed away and released from the body. However‚ sometimes bacteria is able to enter the urethra‚ colonize‚ and infect before the cleaning mechanism can take place. If the infection reaches the bladder‚ the consequences
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第十届 杯翻译竞赛原文（英语组） Path Robert Macfarlane Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow‚ sand‚ mud‚ grass‚ dew‚ earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers‚ though‚ because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed. ‘Always‚ everywhere‚ people have walked‚
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Research question: To what extent is water pollution solvable? Lens: Historical Evaluating Water Pollution Through a Historical Lens With the start of the 20th century‚ the United States has become aware of the seriousness of today’s environmental issues. Today‚ countries with a rapid course of innovation‚ such as China‚ India and even the US struggle to supply their population with the basic necessities‚ like clean water. According to Lian-Jun Bao‚ graduate of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry
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Two of humanity’s main priorities are at stake: protecting life and curing disease. Embryonic stem cells are the solution to the many unanswered questions surrounding these priorities. Many people question why scientists cannot simply use adult stem cells for their research instead of using embryonic stem cells. Adult stem cells have been researched for a much longer period of time and some treatments have successfully been developed from them. There are a couple of major constraints on the
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running through your head is what exactly is desalination. To put it simply desalination is the process to make seawater or otherwise undrinkable water safe to consume. This can be accomplished through a variety of methods such as the simplest but one of the ones that requires a lot of money would be distillation. Distillation is commonly associated with the creation of alcohol like whiskey‚ though it can be used to make "pure" water as well. Simply put distillation is heating the water until the
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Relay Technical Information Definition of Relay Terminology COIL (also referred to as primary or input) • Nominal Coil Voltage (Rated Coil Voltage) A single value (or narrow range) of source voltage intended by design to be applied to the coil or input. • Pick-Up Voltage (Pull-In Voltage or Must Operate Voltage) As the voltage on an unoperated relay is increased‚ the value at or below which all contacts must function (transfer). • Drop-Out Voltage (Release or Must Release Voltage) As the voltage
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Complete the following 2 exercises 1. Provide the CPT-4 code for the Respiratory System. A. Patient underwent bilateral diagnostic nasal endoscopy. The physician inserted an endoscope into the left nostril to evaluate nasal structures. The right nostril was also examined. ------------------------Answer: 31231-50 B. Patient presents with a six- month history of hoarseness. The physician performs a laryngoscopy. The patient is prepped in the usual fashion. A fiberoptic laryngoscope is
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“Did you know that the network of capillaries in the human body is about 50‚000 to 60‚000 miles long?” The circulatory system is formed with two major organs‚ the heart and the blood vessels‚ which includes arteries‚ veins‚ and capillaries. The capillaries are the thinnest type of blood vessel in the body but are one of the most important in the circulatory system. There are three major different types of capillaries: continuous‚ fenestrated‚ and discontinuous or sinusoid. The reason there are three
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