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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Muscle Weakness
1,379 wordsMuscular dystrophy is a group of progressive, genetic diseases in which the muscles that control movement degenerate and weaken. In some forms of this inherited disease, the heart and other involuntary muscles and organs are affected too. There are nine types of muscular dystrophy - (1) Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy (2) Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (3) Becker Muscular Dystrophy (4) Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (5) Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (6) Congenital Muscular Dystrophy (7) Oculop...
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Coronary Artery Disease Part Of My Life
1,494 words1. To explain how chemistry is part of my life. A. An in depth look at heart disease. C. Explanation on how chemistry is used to treat and in some cases cure heart A. Recap on how chemistry is part of my life and everyone's life. B. Elude to the horrors of a world without chemistry. A merciless killer stalks the people of this country. No one can run and no one can hide, but there is a hope. The application of chemistry in the treatment of heart disease is the key to ceasing this villain from cl...
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Low Birth Weight Cerebral Palsy
916 wordsThere are many things to expect when a couple has a child. When a couple conceives a child they should know how much commitment is involved. There are the early morning feeds and cleanings, which can frustrate new parents. A person gives up privileges and most of their freedom when the child is born. Also, one of the parents has to stay home or figure out some way to watch and care for their child during the day. The parents make a commitment to the child to support and love that child. A child ...
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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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Children With Down Syndrome One Of The Most Common
598 wordsSometimes when meiosis (the division of reproductive cells) occurs, chromosomes may be lost, left behind, or too many may be passed on, resulting in the birth of a child with a genetic or congenital defect or disease. One of the most common of these genetic disorders is Down syndrome. This disorder takes its name from Dr. Langdon Down, who was the first to describe it formally, in 1866. Down syndrome is a condition marked by abnormal physical and mental development that is caused by a genetic de...
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National Cancer Institute Teenage Pregnancies
1,529 wordsThe Aftermath of an Abortion To have abortion or not is a very difficult choice to make. The final choice comes from religious and ethical beliefs. However, to have an abortion means to participate in a horrendous crime against humanity, God, and oneself. Abortion can also have deleterious effects on the mothers health and well being. Many of the couples, mainly the mothers, that have an abortion tend to go into a state of depression known as Post-abortion syndrome. Negative effects on the mothe...
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Amp Amp Neuromuscular Junction
1,706 words... e effects would lead to a decrease in the safety factor for neuromuscular transmission. The safety factor is the difference between the threshold needed to elicit an action potential, which is usually around - 45 mV and the actual end-plate potential amplitude, which is usually 70 - 80 mV, this is shown in figure 5. As a result of the reduced number of functional A ChR, the skeletal muscle becomes weakened. This weakness has four special characteristics: 1. It generally affects the cranial m...
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Genetic Disorder Genetic Basis
610 wordsPolydactyl y or Polydactylism Polydactyl y is usually defined as a congenital irregularity of the feet and hands. In other words, polydactyl y occurs when the person has more than five toes per foot or more than five fingers per hand. Alternative names for polydactyl y are extra digits or supernumerary digits. Although it is quite difficult to define the exact causes of the disease, having an excessive numbers of digits can happen on its own, and can have no links with other diseases or symptoms...
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Metabolic Bone Disease Caused By A Lack Diseases
848 wordsBone diseases most directly influence the ability to walk or to move any part of the body hands, limbs, neck, and spine. They are related to joint disorders ARTHRITIS, COLLAGEN DISEASE, DISLOCATION of joints, and RHEUMATISM. The medical specialty pertaining to bone disorders is ORTHOPEDICS. Fractures are the most common bone disorders. They can occur as the result of an accident or be secondary to metabolic diseases. Fractures are life-threatening to aged people having the metabolic bone disease...
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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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Normal Growth Pediatricians Diseases
212 wordsPediatrics, branch of medicine, that comprises the care and treatment of the diseases of childhood and the study of normal growth. Pediatrics became a specialty in the 20 th century. In the 1980 s some pediatricians began a subspecialty called adolescent medicine, which deals with the special medical and emotional needs of persons between the ages of approximately 12 and 20 years. Pediatricians are trained to recognize congenital defects and to treat them when possible. One important treatable c...
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People With Diabetes Congenital Heart
375 wordsCongenital Heart Defects and Drugs Congenital heart defects are mainly caused by one of three things. The first is a block of blood flow in the heart or vessels. The second is caused by blood flowing through the heart where its pattern is abnormal. Rare effects can happen such as when only one functional ventricle is present or when together the pulmonary artery (and aorta arise from the same ventricle meaning double outlet-ventricles. Another rare effect happens when either side of the heart is...
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Extra Chromosome Chromosome 21
527 wordsDown Down Syndrome Down Syndrome Down Syndrome, which used to be called mongolism, is a congenital malformation accompanied by moderate to severe mental retardation, is caused by a chromosomal abnormality. People with Down syndrome are often short in height and have a small, round head with a high, flattened forehead and split, dry lips and tongue. A typical feature is a fold of skin, the epicanthus fold, on either side of the bridge of the nose. The palms show a single transverse crease and the...
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Neural Tube Defects Children With Down Syndrome
2,759 wordsDowns syndrome is a genetic condition involving an extra chromosome, this change occurs around the time of conception. A person with Downs syndrome has forty-seven chromosomes instead of the usual forty-six. A relatively common genetic disorder, Downs strikes 1 out of 600 babies. In 95 percent of all cases, the disorder originates with the egg, not the sperm, and the only known risk factor is advanced maternal age-at age 35, a woman has 1 chance in 117 of having a baby with Downs; at 40, her odd...
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Congenital Glaucoma Glaucoma Glaucoma Eye
599 wordsThe most common Glaucoma Glaucoma The most common eye disease of the eyelid is a sty, which is an infection of the eyelashes. Several congenital defects of the eyelids occur, including coloma, or cleft eyelid, and ptosis, a drooping of the upper lid. (Eye 4) Defects to the eye are in inner surface of the eyelid to the eyeball, which usually burns. The eyelids are skin diseases such as eczema and acne and malignant tumors. The mucous membranes covering the inside of the eyelids and the outside of...
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Hearing Loss Hearing Impaired
2,199 wordsBeing deaf is a handicap that afflicts millions of people around the world every year. Hearing loss can result from any number of afflictions that can affect the outer, middle, or inner ear. The range of hearing loss can also vary from mild to severe. The ear is made up of the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear consists of the auricle, the external auditory canal and the lobe. The outer ear helps to funnel sound and noise into the middle ear. The middle ear consists of the eardrum and th...
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Mental Retardation Extra Chromosome
536 wordsState that meiosis is a reduction division in terms of diploid and haploid numbers of chromosomes Outline the process of meiosis including pairing of chromosomes followed by two divisions which result in four haploid cells In meiosis, the number of chromosomes is halved, the daughter cells receiving only one of each type of chromosome instead of two. It occurs in the formation of gametes (sex cells). In the diploid parent cell, chromosomes occur in homologous pairs (the same size). The parent sp...
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Muscular Dystrophy Association Skeletal Muscles
759 wordsIn 1890, German medical professor Wilhelm Erb and other physicians had been observing several cases of a neuromuscular disease that they believed was affecting how nerve impulses were transmitted to muscle at the neuromuscular junction. The patient? s experienced a " grave muscular weakness" and Wilhelm named it myasthenia gravis. Through further research, the physicians discovered whether it affected the eye muscles first, or created difficulty in talking, chewing and swallowing, or i...
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