Anatomy And Physiology: Fantastic Voyage
Fantastic Voyage
Natasha Vargas
Anatomy & Physiology II
Unit #4 Assignment
Kaplan University
March 25, 2014
Hello Everyone, Welcome to the fantastic voyage. The ride of your life! As I show you a tour guide into the body of a healthy female. I will show you the paths to take to find the bacterium that is invading the lower lobe of the right lung and we must make it out of the body through the nose. Now let’s start in the femoral vein located in the thigh. As we sit there in the femoral vein we are going to drain ourselves into the inferior vena cava via the external iliac vein. The inferior vena cava carries de-oxygenated blood from the lower limbs to the right atrium of the heart. I will continue north from …show more content…
As you can see the left lung is smaller than the right so that there is room for the heart. “The apex of the lungs reach as high as your first rib, which is located approximately behind the collarbone (clavicle). The base of the lung reaches as low as the lowest rib” (M.D, 2002-2014). As you see the space between the right and left lung; we direct our attention to an area known as the mediastinum. The mediastinum carries many important organs, including the heart. “The three lobes of the right lung are named upper, middle, and lower. The upper lobe and the middle lobe are separated by a gap known as the transverse fissure. The middle lobe and the lower lobe are separated by a space known as the oblique fissure” (M.D, 2002-2014). The left lung are also separated between the left and right and is then separated by the oblique …show more content…
“Neutrophils are the most numerous of the active WBC’s called phagocytes that protect the body from invading micro-organisms by actually taking them into their own cell bodies and digesting them by the process of phagocytosis. Lymphocytes help protect us against infections, but they do it by a process different from phagocytosis. Lymphocytes function in the immune mechanism, the complex process that makes us immune to infectious diseases” (Thibodeau, 2014). There is also specific immunity which is “the aspect of your body’s defenses against pathogens that acts against specific molecules, usually requiring that your immune system “learn” the properties of specific molecules over a number of days or weeks before mounting an effective response against the foreign material” (Abedon, 2003-2014). A number of body organs, tissues, and cell types are involved in effecting each of these forms of specific immunity. “The cells that involved in specific immunity are white blood cells (Leukocytes) which makes neutrophils the most common, first to respond and signaled by hormones. Then there is Eosinophil which is granular, 1.5% of the leukocytes, and respond to allergies. Basophil is granular 0-2% of the
Natasha Vargas
Anatomy & Physiology II
Unit #4 Assignment
Kaplan University
March 25, 2014
Hello Everyone, Welcome to the fantastic voyage. The ride of your life! As I show you a tour guide into the body of a healthy female. I will show you the paths to take to find the bacterium that is invading the lower lobe of the right lung and we must make it out of the body through the nose. Now let’s start in the femoral vein located in the thigh. As we sit there in the femoral vein we are going to drain ourselves into the inferior vena cava via the external iliac vein. The inferior vena cava carries de-oxygenated blood from the lower limbs to the right atrium of the heart. I will continue north from …show more content…
As you can see the left lung is smaller than the right so that there is room for the heart. “The apex of the lungs reach as high as your first rib, which is located approximately behind the collarbone (clavicle). The base of the lung reaches as low as the lowest rib” (M.D, 2002-2014). As you see the space between the right and left lung; we direct our attention to an area known as the mediastinum. The mediastinum carries many important organs, including the heart. “The three lobes of the right lung are named upper, middle, and lower. The upper lobe and the middle lobe are separated by a gap known as the transverse fissure. The middle lobe and the lower lobe are separated by a space known as the oblique fissure” (M.D, 2002-2014). The left lung are also separated between the left and right and is then separated by the oblique …show more content…
“Neutrophils are the most numerous of the active WBC’s called phagocytes that protect the body from invading micro-organisms by actually taking them into their own cell bodies and digesting them by the process of phagocytosis. Lymphocytes help protect us against infections, but they do it by a process different from phagocytosis. Lymphocytes function in the immune mechanism, the complex process that makes us immune to infectious diseases” (Thibodeau, 2014). There is also specific immunity which is “the aspect of your body’s defenses against pathogens that acts against specific molecules, usually requiring that your immune system “learn” the properties of specific molecules over a number of days or weeks before mounting an effective response against the foreign material” (Abedon, 2003-2014). A number of body organs, tissues, and cell types are involved in effecting each of these forms of specific immunity. “The cells that involved in specific immunity are white blood cells (Leukocytes) which makes neutrophils the most common, first to respond and signaled by hormones. Then there is Eosinophil which is granular, 1.5% of the leukocytes, and respond to allergies. Basophil is granular 0-2% of the