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Pga Tour Vs Casey Martin
1,108 wordsThe situation has arisen from the dreams of Casey Martin, a golfer who played with Tiger Woods at Stanford was trying in 1998 to make it as a professional golfer. He has Klippel-Trenaunay-Webber syndrome, a congenital circulatory disorder that causes severe swelling in his right leg and foot and makes it all but impossible for him to walk 18 holes. Martin, at the time 25 years of age, wanted to ride in a cart from shot to shot, as he did in college, but the PGA had strict rules about not doing t...
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Red Blood Cells Connective Tissue
986 wordsfunctions in the rapid internal transport of substances Your body's differentiated cells, which perform specialized tasks, cannot fend for themselves. Different types must interact in coordinated ways to maintain the composition, volume, and temperature of a tissue fluid surrounding them, the interstitial fluid. A circulating connective tissue-blood-interacts with tissue fluid, making continual deliveries and pickups that help keep conditions tolerable for enzymes and other molecules heart, gene...
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Segmented Body Jointed Open Circulatory System Wasp
423 wordsAnyone who has ever seen a wasp has seen an arthropod. An arthropod is a creature that has an exoskeleton, a segmented body, jointed appendages and an open circulatory system. In order to understand where the wasp fits into the animal kingdom, it is necessary to know its classification, habitat and its characteristics. An easily recognized arthropod is the wasp. The wasp is a member of the Phylum Arthropod due to its segmented body, jointed legs and open circulatory system. The wasp is part of t...
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Skeletal Muscles Smooth Muscles
613 wordsMuscular System The human muscular system is made up of over 600 connecting muscles. All of the muscles work together in sync to make your body move in several different ways. None of the body systems can work without muscles and your muscles can't work without your other body systems so that means that all of your body systems need each other to work and make your body function correctly. Your muscles need protein, nutrients, and oxygen to move and work. Then the circulatory system carries thos...
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Blood Cells Circulatory System
332 wordsOverview Snake venom is the poison fluid normally secreted by venomous snakes when biting. It is produced in the glands, and injected by the fangs. Snake venom is used to immobilize and / or kill prey, and used secondarily in defence. It is a clear, viscous fluid of amber or straw colour. There are two main types of venom produced by snakes, containing primarily either: Neurotoxins - these attack the nervous system. Hemotoxins - these attack the circulatory system. While most snakes' venom conta...
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White Blood Cells Parts Of The Body
1,025 wordsCirculatory System is the combined function of the heart, blood, and blood vessels to transport oxygen and nutrients to organs and tissues throughout the body and carry away waste products. The circulatory system increases the flow of blood to meet increased energy demands during exercise and regulates body temperature. Also, when foreign substances or organisms invade the body, the circulatory system quickly sends disease-fighting elements of the immune system, such as white blood cells and ant...
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Red Blood Cells High Blood Pressure
1,125 wordsThe circulatory system, which functions in the rapid internal transport of substances to and from cells. Your bodys differentiated cells, which perform specialized tasks, cannot fend for themselves. Different types must interact in coordinated ways to maintain the composition, volume, and temperature of a tissue fluid surrounding them, the interstitial fluid. A circulating connective tissue-blood-interacts with tissue fluid, making continual deliveries and pickups that help keep conditions toler...
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Class Insecta Insects System
459 wordsInsects are numerous invertebrate animals that belong in the Phylum Arthropoda and Class Insecta. The class Insecta is divided into 2 subclasses: Apterygota, or wingless insects, and Pterygota, or winged insects. SubclassPterygota is futher divided on basis of metamorphosis. Insects that have undergone incomplete metamorphosis are the Exopterygota. Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis are the Endopterygota. Insects have an outer bilateral exoskeleton to which the muscles are attached to a...
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Soluble Vitamins Fat Soluble
582 wordsVitamins are a natural living compounds required in the diet humans eat for normal growth and maintenance of life. Vitamins function as cofactors in metabolisms of products in the body. Vitamins cant replace food. Vitamins must be supplied in the diet or in the dietary supplement. Thats why doctors suggest taking vitamins with a meal. A well-balanced diet including plenty amounts of fruit and vegetables plus eggs, meat, and fish. Vitamins help regulate metabolisms. They also help convert fats an...
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Reproductive Organs Circulatory System
425 wordsEarth Worm Direction Parts Function Digestive System Prostomium a small fleshy lobe that extends over the mouth, used to help dig through the soil Mouth the entrance for food into the digestive system, located under the prostomium Pharynx A tube at the beginning of the digestive tract that creates a sucking action to remove food particles from the soil, located just behind the mouth Esophagus a narrow passage in the digestive track that connects the pharynx to the crop Crop a temporary storage a...
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Physical And Mental Thousands Of Years
1,036 wordsRecently, the practice of massage therapy has grown remarkably in the United States. It has become more widely accepted as a medical practice by doctors as well as the general public. Massage is defined as: ? the systematic manual or mechanical manipulations of the soft tissues of the body by such movements as rubbing, kneading, pressing, rolling, slapping, and tapping, for therapeutic purposes such as promoting circulation of the blood and lymph, relaxation of muscles, relief from pain, restora...
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Cold Blooded Oxygenated Blood
1,437 wordsMammals have existed for the past 200 million years. According to fossil evidence, they evolved from a mammal like reptile group. These reptile ancestors were small, active carnivores. They were equipped with several specialized types of teeth. Their limbs were positioned more directly under the trunk as opposed to spreading out to the sides. Both of these characteristics are prominent features of mammals. For the past 70 million years mammals have been the dominant animals in terrestrial ecosys...
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Red Blood Cells Pulmonary Artery
6,589 wordsForwards and backwards to the right and are at the same level of the fifth to eight dorsal vertebrae. The apex of the heart points downwards and forwards to the left and corresponds to the space between the fifth and sixth ribs. However, in thin people, the hearts apex may be pointing more downwards than to the left. Its atrial border corresponds to a line drawn across the sternum on a level with the upper border of the third costal cartilage. Its apex corresponds to a line drawn across the lowe...
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Skeletal Muscles Smooth Muscles
406 wordsDo you think muscles are important? Do you have an idea of what they are made of? Well, here is some food for thought: your muscles make up forty percent of your body weight. If you like that interesting fact maybe youll learn some more. The muscular system has three main types of muscles. These are: smooth, skeletal and cardiac muscles. Your smooth muscles are what line most hollow organs and these are involuntary muscles. If you are wondering what involuntary muscles are, these muscles automat...
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Million Years Ago Endocrine Glands
1,421 wordsHuman Biology and Evolution Humans are Alive The earliest human life form can be traced back more than 3. 5 billion years ago. Humans are said to be descendants of a single celled ancestor. Although they are different in size and shape all basic functions are alike. The more complex the organization of the cell became the more successful and developed it became. As these single celled organisms developed they became known as pre-humans. We share many characteristics with these pre-humans. Some o...
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