The Incredible Human Body
The Incredible Human Body
Jennifer Perez
HS130
Professor Rice
Kaplan University
Hello folks and welcome to the tour of a lifetime! We are going to be seeing many incredible sights today so buckle up and enjoy the ride.
We begin our journey in the femoral artery of this extremely fit female subject, Miss Waters. (Be sure to thank her when the ride has come to an end.) Okay, here go. The femoral artery is very large in size and is located in the inner part of the thigh. A femoral artery can often be palpitated and used as a catheter access artery. It is an extremely amazing thing, the femoral artery. It is an access point for catheters that can travel all the way to the heart and brain! Next we travel through the common iliac and upwards into the abdominal aorta. As we continue to travel upwards we see our subject’s ovaries. Ovaries are the female reproductive organ made up of two oval shaped glands that produce eggs and hormones. Next we see the bladder. The bladder is an elastic organ that stores urine before it is discharged from the body. As we continue on we come to the small and large intestines. Did you know that an average small intestine of an adult is 6-7 meters long? That is crazy! Now do you all see the bean shaped organs we are approaching? Those are called kidneys. Now you know where kidney beans get their name from. Traveling along we see the stomach, pancreas and liver, all very important organs. While the liver filters toxins in the body and aids in digestion, the pancreas works to provide our body with the insulin that manages the levels of sugars in the blood. Folks, we have just received an alert that a bacterium is starting to invade the left lower lobe of Miss Waters right lung. We must hurry along our journey.
10 minutes later…. Now that we have reached the inferior vena cava we will continue on to the superior vena cava. Whoa! Hold on people, the blood is pushing us quickly and into the right ventricle. The right ventricle has one
Jennifer Perez
HS130
Professor Rice
Kaplan University
Hello folks and welcome to the tour of a lifetime! We are going to be seeing many incredible sights today so buckle up and enjoy the ride.
We begin our journey in the femoral artery of this extremely fit female subject, Miss Waters. (Be sure to thank her when the ride has come to an end.) Okay, here go. The femoral artery is very large in size and is located in the inner part of the thigh. A femoral artery can often be palpitated and used as a catheter access artery. It is an extremely amazing thing, the femoral artery. It is an access point for catheters that can travel all the way to the heart and brain! Next we travel through the common iliac and upwards into the abdominal aorta. As we continue to travel upwards we see our subject’s ovaries. Ovaries are the female reproductive organ made up of two oval shaped glands that produce eggs and hormones. Next we see the bladder. The bladder is an elastic organ that stores urine before it is discharged from the body. As we continue on we come to the small and large intestines. Did you know that an average small intestine of an adult is 6-7 meters long? That is crazy! Now do you all see the bean shaped organs we are approaching? Those are called kidneys. Now you know where kidney beans get their name from. Traveling along we see the stomach, pancreas and liver, all very important organs. While the liver filters toxins in the body and aids in digestion, the pancreas works to provide our body with the insulin that manages the levels of sugars in the blood. Folks, we have just received an alert that a bacterium is starting to invade the left lower lobe of Miss Waters right lung. We must hurry along our journey.
10 minutes later…. Now that we have reached the inferior vena cava we will continue on to the superior vena cava. Whoa! Hold on people, the blood is pushing us quickly and into the right ventricle. The right ventricle has one