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Baby Is Born Umbilical Cord
1,296 words... can be starving for food and that can impact the brain of the fetus and cause malformations. Smoking or drinking during pregnancy can form defects in the fetus and cause it to be The fetus is growing in size and has been training for his entrance into the real world. He has been moving around for quite awhile, since about the eighth week. When the fetus moves inside the uterus he is not just playing he is helping to build muscle and strengthen his bones at the same time. At this time the fet...
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Mortality Rate Success Rate
480 wordsSeven months, eight months, the countdown is almost over. One of the most exciting events in your life is about to happen, a new addition to the family. Your obstetric visits are now once a week, but this week the doctor asks you to come back a second time because the baby is in a breech position. Many physicians try to avoid cesarean section and delivering a breech baby, due to the many complications. One option to avoid these sometimes-fatal procedures is an External Cephalic Version (ECV). An...
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Parkinsons Disease Side Effects
1,047 words... ned, however, that they could greatly reduce dose levels - and thus cut down on side effects - by giving levodopa in conjunction with a substance that slows its breakdown in the body. Sinemet, a combination of levodopa and the inhibiting substance carbidopa, has been available since 1975. Treatments must be fine-tuned to suit individual patients depending on their symptoms and stage of disease (Tactics, Toronto Star). For most Parkinsons disease patients, the levodopa / carbidopa page 4 cock...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
2,024 wordsNow of course with the holidays coming up everyone knows to drink and behave responsibly. Everyone including the young mothers who are carrying children. They know all about the physical and cognitive effects that a drink may have on their fetus. According to health surveys 19 percent of 4 million mothers used some form of alcohol in their prenatal phase, in 1992. And this number is continually increasing, making Fetal Alcohol Syndrome one of the leading causes of birth defects in the United Sta...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Children Of Alcoholics
1,856 wordsTopic Description The topic I chose for the research assignment is children of alcoholics. I chose to focus more on the children that are involved in families of alcoholics rather than on the family as a whole, because I felt there would be too much information. Because I grew up in a stable, relatively normal family, I chose to research a topic in which I did not have experience with. The participants that I chose for the interview are people that I know to have problems with parental alcoholis...
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Abortion Birth Control Or Legal Murder
1,342 wordsApproximately 1. 6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the murderers are in their offices waiting for their next patient -- the accomplice to the murder. This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an inno...
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Central Nervous System Physical And Mental
1,313 words... come from excess drinking. Liver problems are the most common problems associated with drinking. Heart problems are also one of the top problems associated with drinking. Beer has a lot of empty calories, and if the calories are not worked off it turns to fat. There are a lot of negative consequences that comes with drinking alcohol, but having a glass of wine every day is proven to be good for you. Drinking excessively is bad for you. Alcoholism is a problem that many people have to deal wi...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
1,679 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) refers to a group of physical and mental birth defects resulting from a women's drinking alcohol heavily or at crucial stages during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was first named and treated in the late 1960 's. This condition results from the toxic effect of alcohol and its chemical factors on the developing fetus. FAS is the leading cause of mental retardation occurring in 1 out of every 750 births. The frequency of FAS occurs about 1. 9 times out of every 1000...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Effects
323 wordsWritten Assignment 2 Question 1 The mechanism of action of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and other antidepressants is as follows: inhibition of NE and 5 -HT reuptake (TCAs, SSRIs, Newer TCAs); inhibition of MAO enzymes (MAOIs); 5 -HT 2 A and 5 -HT 2 C antagonists (Nefazodone, trazodone, mirtazapine); alteration of NE output (Bupropion); stimulation of 5 -HT 1 A receptors; 2 AR antagonists (mirtazapine). The mechanism of action of SSRIs is as follows: SSRIs inhibit the reuptake ...
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Partial Birth Abortion President Bill Clinton
2,497 wordsPartial-Birth Abortion Partial Birth Abortion (PBA) is a common term to refer to medical procedure of Intact Dilation and Extraction (IDX) as a method of interrupting pregnancy at its late terms. PBA is a special procedure of abortion, which includes extermination and intact removal of the fetus from mothers body. It can be successfully performed in the late second or third trimester of pregnancy, or in 20 - 26 weeks of it. As a rule, the surgical procedure consists of the following stages: (1) ...
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Developing Vascular Tree Present At Birth Syndrome
960 wordsThere Polands Syndrome POLANDS SYNDROME There is a rare and perplexing congenital condition known today as Poland's Syndrome. This extremely unusual disorder that is present at birth falls very near and dear to my heart. I will explain in later paragraphs. An anatomy student by the name of Alfred Poland made the first documented observation in 1841 at Guys Hospital in London. Alfred Poland discovered this extraordinary and unexplored abnormality while dissecting the cadaver of a convict that was...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Amount Of Alcohol
874 wordsHow does alcohol affect the unborn baby? What kinds of effects may result in the child and it will it affect it for the rest of his or her life? Whenever you take a drink, the alcohol readily crosses the placenta and enters the babies bloodstream. However the babies tiny developing system is not equipped to handle alcohol and is effected much more severely than is the mother. Every time you take a drink the unborn baby takes a drink as well. Nobody really knows how much alcohol it takes to harm ...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Brain Damage
1,594 wordsBabies grow and develop at a very rapid rate during the first year of life. They grow physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially. In this paper I will discuss the physical growth and development patterns of an infant all the way through adulthood. Development is the babys increased skill in using various body parts. When dealing with a development of a child there are three basic development rules. First development rule: This rule says that babies develop in the head region first, then the...
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Mullerian Inhibiting Substance Development Of Ones Sex Differentiation
418 wordsThe Hormones and Development of Ones Sex The objectives of this article as I saw them were, (1) to show how fetal gonads acquire the ability to function as endocrine organs, and (2), to show the mechanisms by which the endocrine secretions modulate male development. The researchers went through an extremely extensive explanation of the formation of the sexual phenotypes by detailing the development of germ cells. They explained how womens and mens gonads appear identical until Leading cells, whi...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Low Birth Weight
1,185 wordsWomen Smoking During Pregnancy Effects On The Women Smoking During Pregnancy Effects On The Children They Carry Women Smoking During Pregnancy Effects on the Children They Carry: There are many effects that cigarette smoking by pregnant women have on their fetuses. The relationship between maternal smoking and fetal development shows that smoking can induce spontaneous abortion, affect birth weight, and bring about fetal malformations. The long-term effects of smoking while pregnant on the offsp...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Mental Retardation
608 wordsfetal alcohol syndrome The 1990 s is witnessing the significant impact alcohol-related birth defects are having on our society. These birth defects are caused by maternal use of alcohol during pregnancy which are irreversible, yet preventable. The most severe outcome, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), to the less easily diagnosed fetal alcohol effects (FAE). The incidence of FAS is estimated at. 33 per 1, 000 live births. The estimated incidence of FAE is three times that of FAS. With an annual cost...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Alcohol During Pregnancy
501 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome My report is on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, or FAS. During the next four paragraphs I will explain the cause, effect, prevention, and common misconceptions of FAS. FAS is a somewhat common disease in babies. One out of every hundred babies have FAS, and there is a prevention for it. The best prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is to not drink at all during pregnancy. Although many tests have been conducted that show one drink a day during pregnancy did not cause FAS, the best...
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Range Of Motion Autosomal Recessive
2,639 wordsOsteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a rare genetic disorder of collagen synthesis associated with broad spectrum of musculoskeletal problems, most notably bowing and fractures of the extremities, muscle weakness, laxity in the ligaments, and spinal deformities. (Binder, 386). Other collagen-containing skeletal tissues, such as the scleral, the teeth, and the heart valves are also affected to a variable degree. OI has a common feature of bony fragility associated with defective formation of collagen ...
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Unborn Child Takes Place
1,040 wordsAs of right now, abortion is legal in all nine months of the pregnancy for any reason. This controversial issue is a question of how important the value of life is. The turning point came in 1973 when the Supreme Courts decision in Roe vs. Wade saying, that women have the right to murder an innocent child only up to 24 weeks. This false perception is fueled part by groups supporting abortion rights and it is then uncritically unaccepted by the media. The fact is that the current law allows a wom...
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Central Nervous System Spinal Cord
888 wordsSpinal Cord Regeneration Spinal cord injury can occur in many ways ranging from gunshot wounds, stab wounds and also bone displacement. These circumstances can lead to the death of neurons, and the demyelination of axons which causes some loss and damage to neurons. As Hudgins (1998) reports after a primary injury such as above, secondary injury occurs 30 minutes after and also that secondary injury is when the most critical damage occurs. This is when there is hemorrhaging in the gray matter of...
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