Essays on Anatomy & Physiology

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Contact Lenses Versus Glasses: What is Better

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As you probably already know, there are quite a few differences between contact lenses and eye glasses. Glasses have been around a lot longer than contacts, although most people prefer to wear contacts instead of glasses. Contacts have become popular over the years, proving to...

Vision

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What is Bell’s Palsy

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Bell’s Palsy is a form of temporary facial paralysis resulting from damage or trauma to the facial nerves. The facial nerve is also called like the 7th cranial nerve travels through a narrow, bony canal called ( The Fallopian canal ). Bell’s palsy is named...

Human Anatomy Muscle

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Overview of Meningitis, Its Symptoms and Treatement

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Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes also known as the meninges around your brain and spinal cord. The swelling of these membranes can cause you to show the symptoms of meningitis. Most United States cases of meningitis are caused by infections. Although, there are...

Human Brain

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (als)

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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a disease that destroys nerve cells and causes disability. The nerve cells gradually break down and die. Muscle twitching, weakness in a limb, or slurred speech is how ALS typically starts. It eventually affects the muscles needed to move, speak,...

Human Anatomy Nervous System

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Thermoregulation Process in Human Body

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Thermoregulation – including both vasodilation and vasoconstriction: the increase in the internal diameter of blood vessels that is caused by relaxation of smooth muscles within the wall of the vessels, thus causing an increase in blood flow is process of vasodilation. In vasodilation, when blood...

Cardiovascular System

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Sickle Cell Disease -one of The Most Common Inherited Blood Disorders

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Genetic disorders are (usually) rare disease not caused by viruses or other pathogens, but rather from human genetics itself. These disorders are sometimes inherited, like cystic fibrosis, and other times caused by mutations, like Down’s syndrome. Sickle cell is a (inherited) genetic disorder and causes...

Blood Sickle Cell Anemia

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The Role of Whole Brain Radiation in Primary Cns Lymphoma

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There has been renewed interest in utilizing WBRT in the treatment of PCNSL, although current regimens are employing reduced, response-based doses as part of therapy, either intercalated with chemotherapy (as in the DeAngelis regimen), or as a consolidation approach per the Italian regimen detailed by...

Human Brain Nervous System

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Brain Aneurysm: Causes, Symptoms, Treatment

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A brain aneurysm is a bulging weak area in the wall of an artery that supplies blood to the brain. Aging, and hardening of arteries can cause Aneurysms, however some can be inherited. Some risk factors can be prevented, some cannot. The Chance for aneurysms...

Human Brain

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Epilepsy: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

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The Nervous System and Epilepsy The nervous system can be affected by numerous disorders, one of which is a well-known neurological disorder called epilepsy. When brain activity becomes unusual and causes a seizure, it is diagnosed as epilepsy. These seizures occur unexpectedly and vary for...

Epilepsy Nervous System

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5 Reasons Why Crying is Good for Health

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Crying makes you human. The fact that we have the ability of crying says a lot about us Humans have the need to acknowledge our own emotions to organize our thoughts and contemplate what we really want We are usually very emotional creatures and no...

Feeling Tears

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Chemical Weapons and Its Use in Warfare

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Introduction Chemical weapons are designed to injure and eventually kill civilians and soldiers. These weapons have no mercy on innocent children, agriculture, and livestock, causing severe damage to the food sources of local people and leading to long-lasting effects. The use of chemical weapons dates...

Poison

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Are Snakes Really Dangerous

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Snakes are one of the most widely found species. They can be found on every continent except Antarctica and some smaller islands. They are very good at survival and live many months without food and water. Snakes fall under Reptilia class. Altogether more than 20...

Animals Poison

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Brain - The Most Important Organ

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If I asked you what the most important organ was then maybe you would say itwas the heart or the lungs, but the vast majority of you would probably have said the brain and for good reason too. The brain controls everything about you. Made-to-order...

Human Anatomy Human Brain

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Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

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The most notable risk factor for the development of primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is immunodeficiency [1-7]. PCNSL was historically treated with cranial irradiation, i.e., whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT). WBRT may become complicated by the development of chronic and late neurotoxicity. In order to avoid...

Nervous System

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Scale Invariant Feature Transform Algorithm

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Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is an image descriptor for image-based matching and recognition that was developed by David Lowe. Like other descriptors, this descriptor is used for a large number of purposes in computer vision related topics that are related to point matching for...

Computer Vision

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The Ancient Breath Technique of Pranayama

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Predominantly controlling breath is nothing but Pranayama. The word Pranayama is comprised of two Sanskrit words Prana which means life force and ayama which means to suppress the Prana. Implementation done deliberately on the breathing techniques in order to alter it for getting the desired...

Body Healthy Lifestyle Human Anatomy

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What is Blood’s Composition

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All humans have blood, but what is blood? What is blood’s composition? What is blood’s purpose? How is blood produced? How does the blood circulatory system work? What are the types of blood? Do all animals have blood? Is blood always red? This report will...

Blood

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How Parkinson’s Disease Affects Your Body

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Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that predominantly affects dopamine-producing neurons in a specific area of the brain known as the Substantia Nigra. It is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that impacts the movement of different parts of the body. The disease progresses...

Human Brain

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Neurological Disorder of Epilepsy: Diagnose and Treatment

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Epilepsy is a neurological disorder. A neurological disorder is where brain activity becomes abnormal and causes a seizure. These seizures because of epilepsy start without warning and they are different for every person. Anyone can have epilepsy. Epilepsy causes numerous symptoms. Epilepsy is caused by...

Epilepsy Human Brain