Capillary From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see Capillary (disambiguation). [pic] [pic] Blood flows from the heart to arteries‚ which branch and narrow into arterioles‚ and then narrow further still into capillaries. After the tissue has been perfused‚ capillaries branch and widen to become venules and then widen more and connect to become veins‚ which return blood to the heart. Capillaries (pronounced /ˈkæpəˌlɛri/) are the smallest of a body
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Emergency Resuscitation Perioperative Anesthesia Surgical Management Volume 1 TRAUMA Editors William C. Wilson‚ MD‚ MA Clinical Professor Director of Anesthesiology Critical Care Program Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care University of California‚ San Diego School of Medicine La Jolla‚ California Director of Trauma Anesthesia Associate Director Surgical Intensive Care Unit UC San Diego Medical Center San Diego‚ California‚ U.S.A. Christopher M. Grande‚ MD‚ MPH Executive
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The aim of the present study is to use detail diagnostic characters and instrumental validation for authentication of a traditionally important herbal drug known as “Vidari” in local Indian market. Vidari drug has four different botanical entities namely Pueraria tuberose DC (P.t) (family: Leguminosae)‚ Ipomoea mauritiana Jacq (I. m) (family: Convolvulaceae)‚ Adenia hondala de Wide (A. h) (family: Passifloraceae) and Cycas circinalis (C. c) Linn (family: Cycadaceae). In this study morphological
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Philosophy is a study that includes various diverse subfields such as aesthetics‚ epistemology‚ ethics‚ logic‚ and metaphysics. Various philosophical traditions use different methods and include different topics in their study. Some‚ for example‚ include politics‚ physics‚ or religion. The fundamental method of philosophy involves the systematic use of critical reasoning to evaluate arguments in defence of assertions of belief or opinion. The term philosophy comes from the Greek word "Φιλοσοφία"
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“All men by nature desire understanding.” This is how Aristotle opens his famous Metaphysics‚ one of the greatest philosophical works ever produced. The thirst for knowledge has always occupied Western man at least since the time of Thales‚ and even though many different views and opinions about what knowledge is and how it can be gained have abounded throughout Western philosophy up to this very day‚ the fact that so many men have dedicated their lives to seeking knowledge on all sort of different
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Ayurveda (Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद; Āyurveda‚ "the knowledge for long life"; /ˌaɪ.ərˈveɪdə/[2]) or ayurvedic medicine is a Hindu system of traditional medicine native to India and a form of alternative medicine. The earliest literature on Indian medical practice appeared during the Vedic period in India‚[3] i.e.‚ in the mid-second millennium BCE. The Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā‚ encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE‚[4] are
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A microorganism (from the Greek: μικρός‚ mikros‚ "small" and ὀργανισμός‚ organismós‚ "organism") is a microscopic organism‚ which may be a single cell[1] or multicellular organism. The study of microorganisms is called microbiology‚ a subject that began with Antonie van Leeuwenhoek’s discovery of microorganisms in 1675‚ using a microscope of his own design. Microorganisms are very diverse and include all the bacteria and archaea and almost all the protozoa. They also include some members of the
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The Ancient Greek philosophers have played a pivotal role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. This article surveys the seminal works and ideas of key figures in the Ancient Greek philosophical tradition from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. It highlights their main philosophical concerns and the evolution in their thought from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE. The Ancient Greek philosophical tradition broke away from a mythological approach to explaining the
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International Education Journal‚ 2006‚ 7(4)‚ 391-399. ISSN 1443-1475 © 2006 Shannon Research Press. http://iej.cjb.net 391 Contributions of Islamic scholars to the scientific enterprise Yasmeen Mahnaz Faruqi Flinders University‚ School of Education faru0001@flinders.edu.au This paper presents a discussion regarding the role that Muslim scholars played in the development of scientific thinking in the Middle Ages. It argues that the Muslims were not just the preservers of the ancient and Greek
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alis CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study: Moral truths are applied to human existence everywhere and at all times. This is what the researchers believe in. In relation to this‚ a passage from ‘On Literature and Ethics’ by Eskin‚ Michael‚ says: “The distinctive ethical force of literature inheres not in the fictional world portrayed but in the handling of language whereby that fictional world is brought into being. Literary works that resist the immediacy and transparency
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