Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis is an acute virus disease caused by the poliovirus‚ characterized by fever‚ motor paralysis‚ and atrophy of skeletal muscles. This often results in permanent disability and deformity‚ and inflammation of nerve cells in the ventral horns of the spinal cords. This disease is also known as infantile paralysis and polio. Polio is transmitted by direct person to person contact‚ contact with an infected mucus or phlegm‚ and contact with infected feces. The virus enters through
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are injured‚ the results will either be muscle paralysis or the inability to perform certain actions like facial expressions and others. Furthermore‚ the chemical materials used in plastic surgeries cause‚ in many cases‚ serious infections in the internal organs. The spread of these infections in the whole body can certainly cause death after a short period of time. People should take in consideration this fact seriously. Therefore‚ if muscle paralysis and death are some of the consequences of plastic
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bellows. It inflated and deflated the lungs by forcing air in and then sucking it back out again. The process worked‚ but some patients experienced chest pain. Many people suffering from polio or infantile paralysis required such a device. The polio virus can damage the nervous system causing paralysis of the diaphragm. Without the movement of the diaphragm‚ polio-sufferers often died by suffocation. Drinker’s Research Drinker got his idea from a Swedish physician named Thunberg‚ who had been experimenting
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Trisomy 21 is a congenital disorder when a person is born with an extra chromosome. Normally‚ a baby is born with 46 chromosomes; a Down syndrome baby has a total of 47 chromosomes. This extra chromosome changes the babies’ brain and body development‚ which may cause physical and mental delays and challenges for the baby. It is caused when an error occurs during cell division. This error is called nondisjunction normally‚ when one cell splits into two‚ the pairs of chromosome are separated so
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It is often extremely hard for patients to adjust to sudden paralysis and dependence upon others for help with routine daily activities. Patients usually sometimes need psychological counseling to help them adapt to the sudden onset of Guillain-Barre syndrome. When it comes to how long Guillain-Barre syndrome will
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problems they face‚ once they enter the “real world.”Chapter one: Higher and Higher Education‚ Draut gives several examples of how the cost of education has change over the generations from the baby boomers to generation X.Chapter two: Paycheck Paralysis‚ Draut says that generation Xers are living paycheck to paycheck. Many of those who are qualified for many jobs are not able to find work because they truly are not qualified.Chapter three: Generation Debt‚ the author explains the debt students occur
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“Wrong Decision” In the short story “A & P” by John Updike‚ is about a young man that is miserably employed. The short story tells of a small town boy quitting his job for all of the wrong reasons. The story began with a description of a three girls who changed Sammy’s life. Sammy develops the setting to tell the story of how he is a discontent grocer‚ and he is put in to a situation of the harsh reality of the adult world after making a childish decision. Updike tells the story using the
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Although the virus is extremely contagious‚ the human immune response can be considered a very worthy advisory in fighting polio. Most of those infected will not experience any symptoms‚ and only a very small percentage of those who do will develop paralysis from the virus. There are three known strands of the poliovirus‚ commonly referred to as PV1‚ PV2‚ and PV3. Brilliant research and modern science have since almost eradicated the virus through the development of vaccines and a global eradication
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Handout Lab 5 - Cranial Nerves: Assessment of Functions INTRODUCTION The central nervous system (CNS) consists of the brain and the spinal cord. The CNS receives sensory information from other parts of the body or the body’s external environment and transmits motor information to other parts of the body by way of the peripheral nervous system (PNS). The PNS of the human includes 31 pairs of spinal nerves and 12 pairs of cranial nerves. Some nerves contain only motor nerve fibers (efferent
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The effect of drugs‚ toxins‚ and other molecules on synapse and synapse transmission. The synapse is the small gap separating two neurons‚ the presynaptic neuron (neuron that carries the impulse to the synapse‚) and postsynaptic neuron (neuron that carries the impulse away from the synapse.) It separates the axon terminals of the presynaptic neuron from the postsynaptic neuron. The synapse is made of three major parts: a presynaptic neuron‚ a postsynaptic neuron‚ and a synaptic cleft. The presynaptic
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