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Webster Collegiate Dictionary Spinal Cord
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Cystic Fibrosis Bone Marrow
1,259 words... not banned (HCF 1). By combining genetic engineering with cloning, the breakthroughs could allow scientist some insight on how to perfect the treatment of fatal diseases. Ailing convalescents will be free of rejection by their own immune systems (HCF 1). In a rare degenerative disorder, syringomyelia, a syrinx, or fluid filled cavity forms a scar near or on the spinal cord. Left untreated, the cavities cause unbearable pain as well as a gradual loss of sensory and motor skills. The tradition...
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Health Care Provider Spinal Cord
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Down Syndrome And Spina Bifida Cause Effects Treatment
635 wordsMany individuals are born with defects due to genetic factors. Some such defects occur because the child inherits a defective gene, or genes from the parents. Others are caused through mutations- spontaneous changes that occur to a gene or chromosome. Environmental factors affecting the foetus during the uterine development may also cause defects. If, during pregnancy, a woman smokes, consumes alcohol or other drugs, or suffers dietary deficiencies, the developing foetus may be adversely affecte...
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Shown In Figure Neuromuscular Junction
1,660 wordsProteins involved in formation of the neuromuscular junction The neuromuscular junction is a specialized junction, where a motor nerve forms its synaptic terminal with a muscle fibre, one of many fibres that make up a whole muscle. The mature neuromuscular junction is composed of three types of cells - a motor nerve terminal, a muscle fibre and a Schwann cell covering the junction. All three of these cells are highly differentiated and specialized for their functions (Kandel 2000, p. 1089). The ...
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Scientific Benefits Of Cloning Research
1,116 words... jested at times even with the medication that tries to suppress this action. Another technique of transfer cloning obtains healthy adult cells and reprograms them "so that they are embryonic and have the potential to grow into any type of tissue. " ("Potential uses" 980) This method could be used to produce stem cells, which are undifferentiated or unspecialized, capable of being any tissue / organ . Stem cells could be used to replace the area of damaged nerve tissue, which does not regener...
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Spinal Cord Fresh Water
581 wordsSchistosomiasis (also known as Bilharzia) is a disease caused by small parasitic flatworms, species of trematodes of the family Schistosomatidae, which are commonly called blood flukes. The major types that cause schistosomiasis in humans are Schistosoma mansoni leading to intestinal schistosomiasis, S haematobium leading to urinary schistosomiasis and S. japonicum leading to Oriental or Asiatic intestinal schistosomiasis. Persons can get schistosomiasis when their skin comes in contact with con...
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The Threat Of Mad Cow Disease In America
1,071 words... 100, 000 cattle which die per year from the disease (Klepper 1). Even though the disease is difficult to detect with medical tests, there are symptoms of the disease. Physical symptoms include sore joints and muscles. Psychiatric problems include personality changes, depression, difficulty sleeping, withdrawal, fearfulness, paranoia and possible Alzheimers disease (Lawrence 6). When a cows immune system is contaminated with the Mad Cow disease; the side affects include drooling, wobbling (su...
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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Cerebrospinal Fluid
1,099 wordsMeningitis Meningitis (or cerebrospinal meningitis) is the inflammation or infection of the tissues (dura mater of brain or spinal cord, pia mater of brain, cranial arachnoid or arachnoid of spinal cord) that cover spinal cord and the brain. Consequently, different types of microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, funds, etc) can cause meningitis. Infectiologists consider that under certain circumstances any microorganism can cause meningitis at any person of any age. However, infants and children up ...
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Spinal Cord Sexual Intercourse
1,690 wordsSyphilis Syphilis is the disease that was known for many centuries. It started to have a very great influence on European sexuality during the Renaissance period. Syphilis became common in Europe after the army of Charles the VIII have spread the disease in France after the invasion of Naples in 1494. (LeBaron) People who were infected were treated as outcasts by the society. Women, who were suffering from syphilis, were especially abused, they were considered to be possibly infected for the rea...
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Spinal Cord Brain Stem
572 wordsIn medicine, ACHONDROPLASIA is known as being undersized, or less than 50 in. in height. Having short limbs, a normal sized trunk, large head with a depressed nasal bridge and small face. This is a result of a disease in the thyroid gland. It can also be caused by Down syndrome or absorption, a cartilaginous tissue during the fetal stage. Hypochondroplasia, a mild form of dwarfism. Spinal tuberculosis and the deficiency of the pituitary gland secretions. Treatment with thyroxine or thyroid extra...
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Millions Of People Defective Genes
847 wordsIn the past couple years, the topic of genetic cloning has been under heated debate by people all over the world. This debate began when Scottish scientists cloned a sheep named Dolly. The event made headlines around the world and was seen as the beginning of the end for the human race, as we were dawning on a new era in science, one that was to be filled with immoral acts that were seen as scientifically impossible a few years ago. Some believe that cloning is unethical and unnatural, and shoul...
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America On Line Nausea And Vomiting
3,714 wordsMarjory MArijuana Beatriz Lama P&execute; rez Marjory Hutchinson ENG? 190 9 December 1999 Legalization of Marijuana For many years the use of marijuana for medical purposes has been an issue of controversial discussion. Many claim that marijuana is a drug that has proven itself to be of no medical value in the treatment of terminal illnesses. Those who feel this way, usually ignore the long history of marijuana? s medical uses; a history that goes back thousands of years ago. The drug has aided ...
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Hemp Seed Oil Drug Enforcement Agency
10,690 wordsShould Drugs Be Made Legal? For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of society. There have been escalating costs spent on the war against drugs and countless dollars spent on rehabilitation, but the problem still exists. Not only has the drug problem increased but drug related problems are on the rise. Drug abuse is a killer in our country. Some are born addicts (crack babies), while others become users. The result of drug abuse is thousands of addicts in denial. The good n...
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World War Ii Methods Of Execution
2,101 wordsMethods of Execution One mans taking of another's life is generally seen as an unforgivable act which is punishable with death. When this is done as punishment however, it is seen as an honorary deed by removing this criminal from the world and making it a much safer place to live. With executions in mind, it is incredible what ingenious methods can be thought of by the human brain and the fact that the idea is centered around the murdering of one man does not even change how prodigious these in...
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U S Supreme Court Sentenced To Death
2,442 wordsElectric chair, gas chamber, lethal injection, firing squad, hanging, guillotine, and garroting. When you hear these words what do you think of? Do you feel frightened? When some hear these words they tend to say, Oh they deserve it. In the court system that is not always the case. The question you always have to ask yourself is what did the accused do and do they deserve the death penalty? What is bad enough to deserve death? Are their certain crimes that do and then some that do not? Almost ev...
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Spinal Cord Spinal Injuries
454 wordsSpinal injuries are a very serious, and even life-threatening, problem facing almost everyone at some point in there lives. If a broken vertebra pinches a spinal nerve, paralysis may result. The spine is a column of vertebrae stacked one on the next from the skull s base to the tail bone. Each vertebra is hollow through the center where the spinal cord runs through. There are some signs and symptoms that you should check for if you suspect spinal injury on an injured person. Head injuries may in...
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Spinal Cord
806 wordsGuillain-Barre Syndrome, (also called acute idiopathic polyneuritis, and Landry s ascending paralysis) is a disorder in which the body s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nerves, those outside the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms of this disorder include weakness or tingling in the legs, sometimes the weakness or tingling spread to the arms and upper body. These symptom s then increase in intensity, until the muscles cannot be used at all and the patient is almost totally paralyzed, mo...
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Spinal Injuries Spinal Cord
456 wordsSpinal Injuries Spinal injuries are a very serious, and even life-threatening, problem facing almost everyone at some point in there lives. If a broken vertebra pinches a spinal nerve, paralysis may result. The spine is a column of vertebrae stacked one on the next from the skull s base to the tail bone. Each vertebra is hollow through the center where the spinal cord runs through. There are some signs and symptoms that you should check for if you suspect spinal injury on an injured person. Head...
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Central Nervous System Corpus Callosum
4,493 wordsSplit-Brain Psychology A Paper by: David Norelid Imagine being asked to sing Mary Had a Little Lamb and not being able to remember the words but only being able to hum the tune, or knowing the full lyrics, but only being able to bellow out what most closely resembles the cry of an abandoned calf. You cannot sing and remember the words at the same time because your brain hemispheres have been severed from each other. Imagine trying to play the piano, while one hand wants to play Rachmaninov, and ...
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