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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Bones In The Human Body

Humans have about 200 bones in the body, which are joined together and make up the skeleton. Your skeleton helps give your body its shape. The bones of your skull determine the shape of your head. Long bones hold muscles that shape your arms and legs. Rib bones curve to make the sides of your chest.
Your skeleton is the framework of your body. It holds you up and also helps you to move around.
Some bones protect your main inner organs. For example, your skull protects your brain. And your ribs make a rib cage around your heart and lungs.

What are bones made of?

Bones are hard tissues that are living parts of your body, just as your brain and heart are living parts. Bones contain cells that divide and multiply, causing you to grow. These cells are also always rebuilding the bony tissue to keep it strong. Rebuilding happens less as people grow older. So a broken bone will often heal much more quickly in a child than in an adult.
Bones store substances called minerals, which your body uses. Calcium is a mineral. It helps to make the bones hard.
Bones have a strong covering, called periosteum. Inside, there is a hard layer of compact bone. A long bone, such as the thigh bone, has spongy tissue at its ends, called cancellous bone, and soft marrow in its hollow center.

Some parts of your skeleton, such as your arms and legs, have only a few long bones. Other parts, such as your hands and feet, have many small bones.

How are bones held together?

Your bones are held together by strong, flexible straps called ligaments. The ends of the bones are covered with a smooth, rubbery substance called cartilage. This is the same kind of substance that forms the tip of your nose. Cartilage works like a cushion so that the bones don’t grind against each other. Cartilage is covered in a liquid called synovial fluid. This keeps the bones moving smoothly, like oil in the parts of a machine.

Interesting Facts About Bones


  • Humans have about 300 bones when born. Some of these, fuse together creating a single bone. When maturity is reached, humans have 206 bones in the body.
  • The teeth are not counted as bones.
  • The greatest bone in the body, “the femur”, is around 1/4 of the persons height. 
  • The smallest bone in the body is the stapes (stirrup) located in the middle ear, with size around 1/10 of an inch (2.8 millimetres).
  • The only bone which is full-grown at birth is the stapes bone, and is situated in the ear.
  • Hand, fingers and wrist make the area of the body with most bones - 54.
  • The bones of an adult person make approximately 14 % of the total body weight.
  • The bones are made of approximately 75 % of water
  • Human bones start to grow from birth, until mid 20s. 
  • Broken bones re-grow and repair themselves. 
  • The human skeletal system has six major functions: 1. production of blood cells, 2. support, 3. movement, 4. protection, 5. storage of ions and 6. endocrine regulation.
  • The Bone marrow makes up 4% of a human body mass. 
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COMPONENTS OF HUMAN AIR PASSAGEWAY

Air Passageway of Human Respiratory System
In humans and other higher animals the exchange of gases is carried out by the respiratory system. We can divide the respiratory system into two parts i.e. the air passageway and the lungs.

Air Passageway:

The air passagewayconsists of the parts through which the outside air comes in the lungs and after the exchange of gases it goes out. Air passage ways consist of nostrils, nasal cavities, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles and alveolar ducts which ultimately lead into the alveolar sac. Air passageway opens to exterior via opening called nostrils. Nasal cavities are lined with mucous membrane of ciliated epithelium. Each nasal cavity is subdivided into three passage ways by the projection of bones from the walls of the internal nose. Nasal cavities perform the following functions:
  • Air enters the nasal cavity through nostril.
  • The large dust particles are, trapped by the hair present in the nasal cavities.
  • Air while passing through the nasal cavity, becomes moist, warm and filtered of smaller foreign particles by mucous membrane.

Pharynx:

The nasal cavity leads into the throat or pharynx by two internal openings. The pharynx is a muscular passage lined with mucous membrane and is common to both food and air. It extends to the opening of esophagus. In pharynx there are several openings, the air is channelized from the pharynx into the larynx.

Larynx:

The larynx or voice box is a Complex cartilaginous structure surrounding the upper end of the trachea. One of the cartilages, the epiglottis** has a muscularly controlled, hinge like action and serves as a lid which automatically covers the opening of the larynx during the act of swallowing so as to prevent the entry of food or liquids into the larynx.

Glottis:

The opening of larynx is called glottis, the part of the larynx consisting of the vocal cords. Glottis is also lined by mucous membrane. The glottis is guarded by a flap of tissue called epiglottis.

** The commonly held belief that the epiglottis closes downward upon the larynx when food is swallowed is not quite true. The closure is probably never complete; the degree of closure is determined partly by the backward movement of the tongue during swallowing (which forces epiglottis into a more or less horizontal position) and partly by the upward movement of the larynx(which brings it up under the epiglottis). Food does not enter the partly open larynx and obstruct breathing primarily because the epiglottis diverts the food mass to one side of the opening and safely down the esophagus.

Vocal cords:

In the glottis the Mucous membrane is stretched across into two thin edged fibrous bands called vocal cords, which help in voice production, when vibrated by air. The vibrations in vocal cords and the movements of lips, cheeks, tongue and jaws produce specific sounds which result in speech. Speech is an ability that only humans are gifted with and this is one of the characteristics which has put human beings superior to all.

Trachea or wind pipe:

Trachea is large membranous tube strengthened by rings of cartilage, extending from the larynx to the bronchial tubes. The trachea or wind pipe is a tubular structure about 12 cm lying ventral to the esophagus and extends to the chest cavity or thorax where it is divided into right and left bronchi. In the wall of trachea there are a series of C shaped cartilage rings which prevent the trachea from collapsing and keep the passage of air open.

Bronchi and Bronchioles:

Each bronchus on entering the lung divides and subdivides progressively into smaller bronchi. When the smaller bronchi attain the diameter of one mm or less then they are called bronchioles. Bronchi have the same cartilage ringsas the trachea, but the rings are progressively replaced by irregularly distributed cartilage plates and the bronchioles totally lack cartilages. Bronchioles are mainly made up of smooth muscles which are arranged in circular pattern.

Air Sacs and Alveoli:

The bronchioles continue to divide and subdivide deep into the lungs and finally open into a large number of air-sacs. In fact air-sacs are the functional unit of lungs. Each air-sac is like a cluster of grapes and consists of several microscopic single layered structures called alveoli. The alveoli are surrounded by a rich network of blood capillaries to produce an excellent site for the exchange of gases. There are about 700 million alveoli present in the lungs of a mammal. There are many factors which control exchange of gases in alveolar capillaries.

Lungs:

The lungs are closed sacs that are connected to the outside by the way of the trachea and then nostrils. Lungs are spongy because of the presence of million of alveoli. Lungs are placed in the chest cavity. Chest cavity is bounded by ribs and muscles on the sides. The floor of the chest cavity is called diaphragm which is sheet of skeletal muscles. Lungs are covered with double layered thin membranous sacs called pleura. Outer layer is called outer pleural membrane while inner layer is called inner pleural membrane. Pleura membranes enclose a fluid which provides lubrication for the free expanding and contracting of the lungs. The left lung is slightly smaller and has two lobes while the right lung is bigger with three lobes. The lungs have blood vessels that are the branches of the pulmonary arteries and veins.

Following diagram shows the passage of air in respiratory system:

Flowchart of movement of oxygen in Respiratory System

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Human anatomy and physiology tips

With each edition of her best-selling Marieb Anatomy & Physiology Elaine N. text draws Marieb on their own, unique experience as a full-time A & P professor and part-time nursing student to explain concepts and processes in a meaningful and memorable way. The seventh edition, Dr. Marieb produce together with co-author Katja Hoehn to the most exciting edition yet, with beautifully-enhanced muscle illustrations, updated coverage of factual material and topic boxes, new coverage of high-interest topics such as Botox, designer drugs and treatment of cancer, and a comprehensive instructor and student media package. The Human Body: an Orientation, Chemistry Comes Alive, Cells: The Living Units, Tissue: The Living Fabric, The Integumentary System, Bones and skeletal tissues, the skeleton, joints, muscles and muscle tissue, muscle, basics of the nervous system and nerve tissue, The Central Nervous System, the peripheral nervous system and reflex activity, the autonomic nervous system, sensory organs, the endocrine system, blood, cardiovascular system: the heart, the cardiovascular system: blood vessels, the lymphatic system, The Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Body Defensive, respiratory system, digestive system, nutrition, metabolism, and regulation of body temperature, urinary tract, fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balance, fertility, pregnancy and human development, heredity for all readers interested in human anatomy and physiology.

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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Human Gut Diagram

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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Archeological samples of human feces dating back more than a thousand years indicate that ancestral human gut microbiomes more closely In their Venn-Euler diagram and principal component analyses of the sequencing data What Orla-Jensen found is potentially a major piece in the puzzle of the ecology of our bodies. Image 1. A diagram of the human stomach. The stomach may act as a sieve, allowing only some kinds of microbes through to the small intestines. Orla-Jensen and The intestine absorbs the last of the liquids and nutrients before sending the rest on its way to the rectum. It also absorbs nutrients that its bacteria creates in order to maintain adequate blood coagulation. Image Caption: Diagram of the Human Intestine and in the gut and the rest of the gastrointestinal tract. It includes bacteria, archaea, fungi and single-celled eukaryotes, which are organisms whose cells contain a nucleus. The human body has about 100 trillion cells, and carries about ten times as The National Post created a helpful diagram that compares the Trenta to the other size offerings at Starbucks and the capacity of the human stomach. Check it out after the jump: The Trenta is only available for iced beverages, but watch out for what More than half of people cannot pinpoint the exact location of the human heart on a diagram, and nearly 70% can’t correctly In all, 31.4% correctly identified the lungs, 38.4% the stomach, 41.8% the thyroid, and 42.5% the kidneys. .

Colon cancer and rectal share many features, including risk factors, symptoms and how screening procedures are performed. However, their treatment plans are usually different. Diagram of the human intestine What is the difference between the colon and the My Incredible Body of the human bodys organ systems. Through simple, yet informative videos, interactive tours, and manipulatable diagrams, youll be on your way to being an expert about the bodys systems in no time with My Incredible Body. Dendrogram Branch diagram that is commonly used to represent the relationship Qin J, Li R, Raes J et al. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. Nature 2010;464:59–65. Manichanh C, Rigottier-Gois L, Bonnaud E (See diagram below.) Because the mycorrhizal network can extend It’s much harder for pathogens to take over the human gut when beneficial microflora coat its surface. A similar mechanism is at play in the soil. When it comes to preventing plant .


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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Human Nose Diagrams

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The copper insole, on the other hand, belongs to a branch of human understanding people sometimes call Wellness “I’m supposed to squirt water up my nose on purpose?” I ask. “Sounds weird,” says a woman standing next to me. In a five-day trial, jurors learned all about the human nose, as physicians used diagrams, charts and a replica skull to explain how a surgical tool could go into the upper nose and penetrate the brain. Mr. Kennelly had a persistent cough, post-nasal drip In the diagram, the eyes, lips, nose, and tongue appear grotesquely large It’s the kind of error we’d never make when studying the actual human corpus, but which crops up easily when trying to pin things down in the murky geography of the brain. That should be 1.618 times more mouth than nose. And every human facial feature can be matched to the same ratio. Using these calculations the doctor has drawn up a perfect beauty diagram and discovered that Pfeiffer, 43, is the most beautiful. Marquardt Which is why, when I arrived in San Francisco, walked up to the podium, and switched on my computer, I presented my audience with this photograph of a lake of variation from one nose to the next. Here’s a microbial Venn diagram shows the diversity “The thing about scent,” Cheok says, showing me a diagram of the skull That gives you a digital signal of a smell based on the biological receptors in the human nose. And that is completely crossing the line.” “So,” I ask him, “how .

A dolphin participates in a matching task, touching its nose to the shape the same shapes shown to the dolphins. When given two choices, the chimpanzees had to touch the shape that was identical to the sample. In the human experiment, 20 volunteers All students—and I mean all—ought to think seriously about majoring in English. Becoming an English major means pursuing the most important subject of all—being a human being book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a day; her Kindle They have trapped it in a tiny groove on a clear plastic chip, with just its nose sticking into a channel offers one of the most promising approaches for understanding the human brain, since it uses much the same working parts but is around a million That "piddling around," as he called it, led to developing the Feynman diagrams to explain quantum electrodynamics explains Andrew Smart, a human factors research scientist and author of the new book, "Autopilot, the Art & Science of Doing Nothing." .


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Human Brain

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The average human brain.

The United States and the European Union have launched new programs to better understand the brain. Scientists are mapping parts of mouse, fly and Human Brains at different levels of magnification. Technology for recording brain activity has been improving But what we often forget is that we already own the most dynamic, efficient machine ever created: the Human Brain. The (roughly) three-pound supercomputer inside your skull simultaneously processes facts and faces, stores memories, sweeps out toxins The Human Brain has been described as a massively parallel computing machine. But just how powerful is it? A recent brain scan analysis is offering some unexpected results. Image: DiffusionMRI glyphs (a process similar to fMRI). Each of the brains voxel Oxford artificial intelligence expert says computers will be smarter than the human brain by obtaining “intuition and logic,” learning from experience, possessing emotional intelligence and having an ability to deal with uncertainty in the world around researchers at the University of Washington have established a brain to brain communication link using the internet. The finding provides scientific evidence of the human brain being able to send a signal to another person, leading to a motor action A photo of oligodendrocytes in a tissue sample from the human brain. It is an illustration for a paper in Cell by Dr. Jonas Frisén and colleagues at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Credit: Jonas Frisén, Karolinska Institutet. The brains plasticity and .

One of the great mysteries of the human body is the awesome ability of the brain. Some say there are more connections in a human brain than stars in our galaxy. We are talking about 100 billion neurons. Brain research is one of the great frontiers of It is hard to shake the suspicion that the human brain is too complex to rewire like a computer. The doctrine of Colorado psychologist Shawn Smith comes to mind. According to Smith, at core, the brain is a tireless worry machine designed to constantly How the Implant Works Brain activities are processed and transmitted wirelessly Near-infrared light was considered for this system because it is safe for use on human cells. It can go deep into the tissue and it allows visual observation of the implant Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), Human Brain Project (HBP), Kavli Foundation, and the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI). The aim of the study is to provide benchmark data of the current level of brain research on a global scale and .


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Human Diagram Of A Cell

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A DNA "tape recorder" is now able to record activities of human cells, as well as the conditions affecting the structure. Strands of genetic code, designed to be read by researchers, are able to record changes within a cell over the course of several weeks. Computer scientists and biologists in the Data Science Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a rare collaboration between the two very different fields to pick apart a fundamental roadblock to progress in modern medicine. A stem-cell biologist has had an eye-opening success in his has grown the precursor of a human eye in the lab. The structure, called an optic cup, is 550 micrometres in diameter and contains multiple layers of retinal cells including photoreceptors. "The existence of these structures may be loaded when the cell has a certain genotype or a certain specifically to track down and bind to regions of human DNA that were rich in the quadruplex structure. The antibodies were tagged with a fluorescence A research team led by a cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has generated a 3D model of the human malaria parasite genome in virulence — are found elsewhere in the 3D structure in a “repression center.” For decades, researchers have used petri dishes to study cell movement which are associated with many human infectious diseases. "This work illustrates how the physical structure of the matrix can influence cellular properties to govern biological .

In an astonishing new study, scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have imaged human and monkey brains and found We still know almost nothing about how the brain’s structure translates into its incredibly complex and powerful Scientists determined the detailed structure and movement of the glutamate receptor Nerve cells contain glutamate receptors that span the cell membrane. When glutamate binds the receptor on the outside, the receptor changes shape and opens within and a simple human cell should reside. Should HESCs have the same basic moral status as a human being? This is a question I am not qualified to answer, nor do I even want to consider at this point in time. Scientists have been looking to get around this At this scale, a medium-sized human cell looks as big as a football field The ER sends newly made proteins and lipids to the Golgi complex, a short and narrow structure inside the cytosol. The Golgi complex processes them and sends the molecules .


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cell line to ensure self renewal stem cells undergo two types of cell
cell line to ensure self renewal stem cells undergo two types of cell
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Monday, March 9, 2015

11 Foot Giant Human Remains at Circular Earthen Fort in Erie County Pennsylvania

11 Foot Giant Human Remains at Circular Earthen Fort in Erie County, Pennsylvania





History of Erie County, Pennsylvania, 1884 
     On the John Pomeroy place, upon the second flat of Conneaut Creek, are the traces of an ancient mound, such as exist in Girard, Springfield, Harbor Creek, Fairview, Wayne, and other townships of the county. It is circular in form, inclosing about three-fourths of an acre. The embankment, when the country was cleared up, was about three feet high by six feet thick at the base, with large trees growing upon it. One of these trees, a mammoth oak, when cut down, indicated by its rings an age of five hundred years. Beneath the tree the skeleton of a human being was taken up which measured eleven feet from head to foot, the jawbone easily covered that of a man who weighed over 200 pounds, and the lower bone of the leg, being compared with that of a person who was six feet four inches in height, was found to be nearly a foot longer. Another circle of a similar character existed on the Taylor farm-now owned by J. L. Strong
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Radio discussion of the giant human skeletons discovered in the Ohio Valley

Open Canvas Amadpainter and Mark Eddy Guest Fritz Zimmerman

 Radio discussion of the giant human skeletons discovered in the Ohio Valley. Sacred Geometry, numerology and the migrations of the Biblical Amorites, to North America are a few of the topics covered in this one hour.




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