Visible Human Project p. 7 Homeostasis and Disease p. 13 An Introduction to Studying the Human Body This textbook will serve as an introduction to the inner workings of your body, providing information about both its structure and its function. Many of the students who use this book are preparing for careers in health-related fields—but regardless of your career choice, you will find the information within these pages relevant to your future. You do, after all, live in a human body! Being human, you
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Breathing, we do it subconsciously every day. The Respiratory system is responsible for this process to take place, the moment we do not breath our body begins to deteriorate, tissue, organs, begin to fail without vital oxygen. Most diseases that affect the respiratory system are deadly and must be taken very seriously. Our ability to breath must not be taken for granted. The Respiratory system is a vital part of the human body. It is responsible for the taking in and distribution of oxygen in the
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The Excretory System of… The Blobfish Introduction Described as the world’s ugliest animal in 2013, the Psychrolutes marcidus, or infamously known as the blobfish, is one of the most infrequent animals ever seen by a human. The member of the psychrolutidae family dwells specifically around the coasts of Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania (as indicated by the image on the right). At this fathomless
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The Circulatory System Rajat Goyal and Michelle Fater Table of Contents Table of Contents Human Organ Systems The Circulatory System Open Circulatory System Closed Circulatory System Functions of the System Heart Pulse Chambers of the Heart Arteries Veins Blood Oxygenation of Blood Red Blood Cells White Blood Cells Antigens Plasma Cells and Platelets Circulatory Systems of Other Organisms Mammals and Birds Amphibians and Reptiles Fish First Aid Glossary About the Authors Illustration Credits 1
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Anatomy and Physiology for Health and Social Care Task 4- P4 Energy within the human body can be associated with the function of different body systems, this comprises of respiratory, cardiovascular and the digestive system. The different body systems that I will be talking about are the cardiovascular and respiratory system. There are many different phrases and words used when describing and explaining how the body systems are linked to energy metabolism. The meaning of metabolism is the chemical process
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Liver: Organ Description Gina Skolosh Kaplan University General Biology 1: Human Perspectives SC235 Kathryn Gubista June 3, 2015 Liver: Organ Description A human body is made up of about 78 organs that are different in the harmony with their functions, actions, and sizes (Normann & Rehermann, 2004). An organ is a collection of numerous cells that work together to carry out an individual function in the human body. The body’s organs carry different cells, these cells are extremely focused
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basic human body structure units and their functions The way in which physical processes and functions take place in the body can be looked at on four main levels, moving progressively from the detailed to the general. At the most detailed level are the cells – the most basic of the physical structure units. Similar cells, when combined and held together, form tissue, the next main structure unit. Organs are collections of tissues that are combined to perform a particular function in the body. Organs
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The human body is composed of systems that work hand-in-hand for the development and maintenance of the overall health of a person. These systems work in different and unique roles but help each other by working together to fight against the body’s enemies. One of the most essential systems in the human body is the immune system which consists of different cells, tissues, and organs found in various parts of the body that serves to defend and protect it against diseases and infections that are harmful
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illustration of the post human condition, an extreme illustration nearing the end of human life. While Matrix viewers are more interested in virtuality and the Real, the movie articulates significant post humanist concepts surrounding embodiment, human consciousness, and entropy. When considering what is human, or what constitutes humanness ‘the body’ has been of significance, however, moving into a posthumanism era embodiment has seemed to lose all significance; here the body is likened to a machine
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Neurotransmitters Many communication pathways exist within human. The endocrine system and the central nervous system are the two main systems that regulate activities and transmit messages throughout various organs and glands in the human body. These systems use stimuli released from glands or neurons in order to adjust levels of chemicals to the body to ensure the body is performing properly (Huffman, 2013). The stimuli released from these systems are hormones and neurotransmitters. Hormones, though
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