Papers on Health and Medicine
The Digestive System: How It Works
Words: 1022 - Pages: 4.... gland. Intracellular digestion occurs even in some animals that consume large pieces of food; the prey captured by Hydra, for example, is partly digested in the coelenteron, a gut-like cavity, and the residue is completely digested in cells of the body wall. Scientists believe that intracellular digestion in organisms such as Hydra has evolved from such protozoans as amoebae and paramecia.
In most higher animals digestion is completed not in the cell in the cavity of a digestive tract (the stomach and intestine). Animals with this type of digestion include crustaceans, insects, cephalopods, tunicates, and all vertebrates. A few animals .....
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One Thousand Years Of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity And Demise
Words: 3441 - Pages: 13.... feet and beautiful bow shoes.[2] The
practice apparently became the standard for feminine beauty in the imperial
court, spreading downward socially and geographically as the lower cl asses
strove to imitate the style of the elite. [3]
In its most extreme form, footbinding was the act of wrapping a
three- to five-year old girl's feet with binding so as to bend the toes
under, break the bones and force the back of the foot together. Its purpose
was to produce a tiny foot, the "golden lotus", which was three inches long
and thought to be both lovely and alluring.[4] It is believed that the
origin of the term "golden lotus" emerged in .....
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Drugs And Steroids In Sports
Words: 1248 - Pages: 5.... Greek word anabolikos meaning "constructive." Steroids are basically made up of hormones. One woman training to make the 1984 US women's basketball team used them, her muscles started to bulge, her voice grew deeper, and she even had the beginnings of a mustache. These are all the usual symptoms of anabolic steroids. Steroids were not always used for sports, they started out the same way most drugs did, medicinal purposes. Victims of starvation and severe injury profited from it's ability to build new tissue quickly. They also helped prevent muscle tissue from withering in patients who had just had surgery. Steroids are used t .....
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Excretion And Elimination Of Toxicants And Their Metabolites
Words: 1076 - Pages: 4.... be recovered.. Reabsorbtion begins in the
tubules of the nephron. Anywhere from 65% to 90% of reabsorbtion occurs in
these structures. Active reabsortion is used to recapture glucose, proteins,
amino acids and other nutrients. Water and chloride ions are passively
reabsorbed by the establishment of osmotic and electrochemical gradients. Both
the Loop of Henley and collecting duct are used to establish these osmolar
gradients. The tubule has a brush border that will absorb proteins and
polypeptides through pinocytosis. These molecules are sometimes catabolised and
converted into amino acids. and returned to the blood. Sometimes the
accumu .....
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AIDS
Words: 1737 - Pages: 7.... of gay males in this country. This was a result of the fact that gay males in this culture in the days before had an average of 200 to 400 new sexual contacts per year. This figure was much higher than common practice among heterosexual men or women. In addition, it turned out that rectal sex was a particularly effective way to transmit the disease, and rectal sex is a common practice among gay males. For these reasons, the disease spread in the gay male population of this country immensely more quickly than in other populations. It became to be thought of as a "gay disease". Because the disease is spread primarily by exposure of ones blo .....
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Being An Athletic Trainer
Words: 719 - Pages: 3.... of this field. An athletic trainer has to see if the player is able to compete with their condition in a matter of minutes. An athletic trainer also has to prescribe and support equipment to allow athletes to continue playing.
Personal and physical characteristics are important to any career. Some jobs are more demanding than others physically. While others suggest a challenge more mentally than physically.
Physically
For an athletic trainer, physically you must be able to communicate well with athletes on proper use of equipment and confer with coaches and physicians. You also have to kneel, stoop, and crouch to examine and treat in .....
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Schizophrenia
Words: 1398 - Pages: 6.... illnesses known today. This disorder is characterized by “a dysfunction of the thinking process, such as hallucinations, delusions, and withdrawal from the outside world”(Bower, 1).
is a biologically based brain disease. “The most recent advances in brain chemicals- dopamine and serotonin- in those who suffer from ”(Bower,1). Also scientists believe is caused by poor parenting of weak will power. “This disease makes it difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and imagined experiences, to think logically, to express normal emotional responses or to behave normally in social situations”(, 1). This dis .....
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Chinese Medicine
Words: 1470 - Pages: 6.... doctor can look at
the kidney as a machine and think of it as a reflection of universe.(2) He can
apply two different disease classification systems, cold damage or warm damage
where he feels it is appropriate, without being deterred by contradictions
between the two.(3)
One (Western) method of gaining knowledge is analysis. It is the method
of breaking things into component parts to understand the whole. This method
has been applied in China, but not to the same level as in the West. Analysis
is one of the important features of all western modern science and technology.
In fact, the analytical approach is the basis of western .....
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Fibromyalgia Syndrome
Words: 791 - Pages: 3.... The symptom of fatigue can be mild in some patients and yet incapacitating in others. The fatigue has been described as “brain fatigue” in which patients feel totally drained of energy. This can lead to difficulty concentrating. Most fibromyalgia patients have an associated sleep disorder called the alpha-EEG anomaly. This condition was uncovered in a sleep lab with the aid of a machine which recorded the brain waves of patients during sleep. Researchers found that patients could fall asleep without much trouble, but their deep level (or stage 4) sleep was constantly interrupted by bursts of awake-like brain activity. Patients appe .....
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Diabetes
Words: 1110 - Pages: 5.... One half of all people with type 1 are under the age of 20. It is very rare in Asians, Africans, and Native Americans. This disease is hereditary, but is usually triggered by a viral infection. Some of the symptoms of type 1 are urgent thirst, excessive urination, weight loss, fatigue, and irritability. Because it is inherited, this type can not be prevented.
The second type of is type 2 , or "non-insulin dependent" . In this type, insulin is produced by the pancreas but is ineffective. This type usually affects obese middle-aged and older people and can affect nearly all races. The risk of developing this type increases with age. Simila .....
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