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    Bodily Systems

    Everyday actions that humans are involved in can only be completed with the collaboration of different body systems. The nervous system sends the impulse to muscles and triggers senses to occur. The skeletal system provides support of the body and the muscular system enables movements to take place. The task of eating a hamburger in response to its smell involves the nervous system, skeletal system, and muscular system. The smell of the hamburger triggers impulses of the nervous system. The

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    Explain The Anatomy Of The Soft Palate

    Anatomy of the soft palate: The soft palate is innervated by the lesser palatine nerves, which travel through the lesser palatine foramen, along with vessels to supply nutrients to the area. The soft palate contains salivary glands, which secrete mucous and help keep the oral cavity and buccal mucosa “moist”. The area along which the hard and soft palate meet forms a “double curving line, with the posterior nasal spine of the palatine bone being the primary landmark at the midline.”23 A majority

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    The Onion

    down, that is when he decided to strike! I could feel the burn start to take over, mild in the beginning then slowly growing in strength. One by one the tiny onions were assaulting me, throwing what I can only describe as little vials of acid at my tongue and my cheeks were taking damage from the splash effect. I very quickly became distraught, tears welling up in my eyes as my innocence was stolen from me.

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    Unit 2 Discussion Board for Advanced Entrepreneurship

    technique being used in the ad is humor as well as shock appeal. When I first saw the ad, I actually laughed out loud. This ad shows a female that is frozen solid and sticking her blue tongue out. The shock appeal is the way that the female looks, and the humorous part is that she is frozen and is sticking out her tongue (Sprite Ice Blue, 2011). I feel that this technique would work well for other products in the beverage category. There are other beverages that are unique like this one, and combining

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    Olfactory System

    activate the taste buds. Unlike the olfactory system where the receptors are only found at the top of the nasal cavity, with gustation the receptor cells can be found in our taste buds. Taste buds can be found all along the surface of the tongue, on the inside of our cheeks, on the roof of our mouths and in our throat. The olfactory takes the molecules to the olfactory bulb which is part of the olfactory cortex in the brain in order to produce an odor. With gustation the information provided

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    Aguesia, It's Worse Than It Sounds

    13, 2014 Title: Ageusia, It Is Worse Than It Sounds Statistically ageusia is an extremely rare sensory disorder, which is typically caused after a surgery or fatal accident instead of natural causes. Ageusia is the loss of taste function in the tongue. The chemoreceptors are inhibited on the human’s taste buds and the ability to decipher between something sweet, sour, or bitter is impossible. Although, the person diagnosed with ageusia does still has the ability to detect the texture of the food

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    A Summary Of Jane's Case

    John kissed down Jane’s stomach to her lower abdomen. He began to kiss around her vagina and slowly made his way towards it. As John began to perform cunnilingus, Jane grabbed onto her breasts and felt the swelling of her nipples (Lehmiller, 2013). Her breaths started to hasten as she began to come close to reaching orgasm. She knew she often reached her relief much sooner than John did. He enjoyed performing oral sex on her and he reached a level of satisfaction from doing it. Jane felt her uterus

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    Geographic Tongue

    Oral manifestations of migratory stomatitis, or geographic tongue, may be associated with inherited genetic factors, immunological abnormalities, trepidation, and several other disorders including (but not limited to) psoriasis and diabetes (Jainkittivong). Geographic tongue involves lesions located non-specifically on ‘the tip, lateral borders, and dorsum of the tongue’ (Jainkittivong). These lesions frequently appear as ‘multifocal, circinate, irregular erythematous patches bounded by a slightly

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    Cleanliness

    Cleanliness The Virtuous Life: Cleanliness by Brett & Kate McKay on May 4, 2008 · 22 comments in A Man's Life, On Virtue, The Virtuous Life This a 10th post in a series about the Benjamin Franklin’s 13 virtues. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation. A common stereotype that society places on males is that of the sloppy and unkempt man. We see it all the time on television. A man sitting in his man chair with potato chip crumbs all over himself. Beer

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    Kawasaki Disease

    it mainly affects children under the age of five of Asian descent, however in the United States there have been cases in the African American community (Saguil, A.; Fargo, M; and Grogan, S.; 2015). The first case of Kawasaki Disease (KD) presented itself in Japan in 1961, to a 4 year old boy who had the following symptoms high fever, bleeding lips, strawberry tongue and diffuse erythematous of the oral cavity and mucous membrane (Kawasaki, T., Naoe, S. 2014). Kawasaki Disease affects the coronary

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