Essays Tagged: "Kidney"
This essay is about Renal Autotransplantation and the affects it can have on a human body.
ne not once but twice. Auto transplantation is not your typical transplant. For example, removing a kidney and replacing it with another one in the same spot. With auto transplantation they remove the ... ey remove the kidney but replace it in a totally different area. In Kim's place she had both of her kidneys placed in the front side of her body underneath her ovaries. With this disease there is a lo ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The Fabry Disease
lop angiokeratomas and may have problems with burning pains. Very few of the carriers may also have kidney or heart problems. This disease occurs in 1 of 40,000 people.DescriptionsA person with the Fa ... g is also available.PrognosisPeople affected by this disorder usually dies by the age of 40-50 from kidney failure or cerbovascular complications.TreatmentThere is only treatment to relieve the pains ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Chinese Medicine
est, as needing to be proven to reach the highest degree of truth. A Chinese doctor can look at the kidney as a machine and think of it as a reflection of universe.(2) He can apply two different disea ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Iron
h can be black, brown or even reddish. Hematite is the most important iron ore, commonly occurs as 'kidney ore' - so -called because of its shape (Symes, 1988, 56). Other ores included goethite, magne ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
The Kidney
Written for a science honors project Informative, comprehensiveKidneysIn vertebrates, kidneys are the two major organs of excretion. Excess water, toxic waste prod ... toxic waste products of metabolism such as urea, uric acid, and inorganic salts are disposed of by kidneys in the form of urine. Kidneys are also largely responsible for maintaining the water balance ... are also largely responsible for maintaining the water balance of the body and the pH of the blood. Kidneys play important roles in other bodily functions, such as releasing the erythropoietin protein ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Excretion and Elimination of
by this chapter was the excretion of wastes by the Renal system. The first step that occurs in the kidney deals with the nephron, which is the functional unit of the kidney. In the glomerulus the for ... y of the xenobiotic. Polar compounds are soluble in the plasma water are more easily removed by the kidneys through the use of glomerular filtration. The faster the rate of glomerular filtration , the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
'Breaking Down Growth' (hypotonics)
listed below. As you will see I have decided to use different types of plants/ seeds. - 5 beans (kidney, pinto, etc.) - at least 1-1 pint jar - distilled water - refrigerator - several liquid p ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Euthanasia Position Paper - Against Euthanasia
hanasia were legalized.Case History: A seventy one-year-old Christian woman developed cancer in her kidney. Physicians helped her by removing the kidney. However, now the cancer has spread to other pa ... has spread to other parts of her body. The physicians say that she needs dialysis, since her second kidney is now failing. They believe that dialysis might keep her alive for six to nine months. Witho ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia
The kidney's structure, functions, and what controls these functions.
The kidney is made up of nephrons, which are a kidney's functional units. These nephrons collect fluid f ... s, which are a kidney's functional units. These nephrons collect fluid filtered from the blood. The kidney connects to the renal artery, renal, vein, and ureter. Purified blood leaves the kidney using ... he renal vein, urine leaves using a ureter and the renal artery carries blood from the aorta to the kidney.The nephron has a cup-shaped nephric capsule that surrounds a cluster of capillaries called t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Piracy Brings Down Economy - essay is about how economy is affected by piracy and how its a bad thing to do. reasons why it is bad and reasons why it is good. helpfull if givin to one that is old.
ted material. Currently, piracy is being done constantly by many people all over the world. (Walter Kidney) These file swappers (the people) are downloading and trading software for their personal use ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Development Studies
Chinese medicine History
West, as needing tobe proven to reach the highest degree of truth. A Chinese doctor can look atthe kidney as a machine and think of it as a reflection of universe.(2) He canapply two different diseas ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Organ Transplants: Transplants patients could be in risk by disease or virus
of our body. If it attacks during heart transplant, then it will spoil the heart but also the lung, kidney and other organs that contribute to ordinary heart disease. The cold virus germ known as aden ...
Subjects: Science Essays
An experiment to look at the effect of 1 factor on an enzyme
en.2H202 "_ 2H20 + 02It can be found in most cells, however it is mostly concentrated in the liver, kidney and tuber cells of plants (e.g. potato).HypothesisI predict that as the temperature increases ... sults.I am leaving the reaction for 2 minutes, as it is a slow reaction. I could have used liver or kidney, but I felt that these were both too fast to accurately take a reading after a given time.I a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Tuberculosis
spread the TB to any nearby people. When someone catches TB in another part of the body such as the kidney or spine TB becomes likely to not be infectious. Other than catching TB through the air (brea ...
Subjects: Science Essays
A very suspenseful story on how i fell off a quad
e branch across my head. When I had realized what had just happened I gave him a quick elbow to his kidney for not warning me. All that could be heard was the wind blowing past us and the nappi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Common risk factors for cancer
al different types of cancer which can be but are not limited to colon, rectal, stomach, breast and kidney which is targeted at the 50 and over generations. Prostate cancer is targeted at the 65 and o ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Notes on the structure, function, and processes involved in the human kidney
-Blood enters each kidney via renal artery and leaves each kidney via renal vein-Urine exists the kidney through a duct ... ney via renal vein-Urine exists the kidney through a duct called the ureter and the uruters of both kidneys drain into a common urinary bladder-Kidney consists of outer renal cortex and inner renal me ... ney consists of outer renal cortex and inner renal medulla-Nephron is functional unit of vertebrate kidney -Consists of single long tubule and ball of capillaries called the glomerulus - ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Information about chronic alcohol consumption
ans in your body. When someone consumes more than enough alcohol, it tends to lead to Brain, Liver, Kidney and Cardiovascular system failure. These are all very important attributers of you body. ... Cirrhoses. If your liver fails, it will cause the person to be in a coma, or even die. Your kidneys serve the purpose as a sort of a filter that filters the blood in your body. If you consume ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Should the trade in kidneys from living donors be legalised? Discuss.
Should the trade in kidneys from living donors be legalised? Discuss.The trade of kidneys, more so for the seller, is, l ... rfect to disastrous. I will try and use arguments for and against both sides.Why should the sale of kidneys be legalised?First and foremost, the sale of a kidney, that is not vital to someone, could g ... idney, that is not vital to someone, could give someone else a chance to live. If the seller of the kidney died, then there would be no justification for the argument for the sale of kidneys, because ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Euthanasia
aling with euthanasia. Case History: A seventy one-year-old Christian woman developed cancer in her kidney. Physicians helped her by removing the kidney. However, now the cancer has spread to other pa ... has spread to other parts of her body. The physicians say that she needs dialysis, since her second kidney is now failing. They believe that dialysis might keep her alive for six to nine months. Witho ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia