Palatine uvula

Why is it bad when a person snores? Snoring can be bad in a couple ways. It can socially unacceptable as well as medically unsafe. Socially, a person that snores can become the subject of ridicule for their loud or obnoxious snoring sound. In addition to keeping their sleeping partner or the others around them up because of the loud sounds of snoring the person is making. Medically, it disturbs a person’s sleep patterns keeping them from getting a full night’s sleep and feeling fully rested when they wake up. When a person snores it may be a sign of a far more serious problem know as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome or (OSA). In the early 1970s some of the sleep disorder clinics started to use respiratory and cardiac sensors on a regular basis in all of their overnight sleep studies. This gave way to new possibilities for the way we study sleep and sleep disorders, and since then, the overnight diagnostic tests have become known as polysomnography. Polysomnography tests record many things like the brain activity, a person’s heart rate, in addition to breathing patterns, as well as movements of various parts of the human body. The use of polysomnography is now the standard in which tests are performed for recording and documenting a person’s sleep habits. It has also become useful for assessing abnormal events in a person’s sleep. Such events would include sleep apnea, periodic movements, electroencephalographic abnormalities and arousals are performed. Inadequate sleep or a…

Countess Elizabeth Bathory is an infamous serial killer from the seventeenth century, who has been accused of the murders from anywhere between 30-650 young girls, though only a minimum of 30 were witnessed, and 600 has been proved to be a high exaggeration. Elizabeth was born on August 7th, 1560 into one of the wealthiest families in Transylvania. She could speak and write four languages, and had a high education, proving she was a very intelligent woman. At fourteen she married Count Bathory,…

Founding of Morality and Marble Everything has a beginning, and with every beginning a narrative must always go along with it. Founding stories are tales of how things came to be, they can be extravagant, tragic and even mythical in nature. Two well-known stories which are often paired together due to their similar nature are the tales of Cain and Abel from the book of Genesis and Livy’s Romulus and Remus. The resolutions in these stories had outcomes which established ideologies on sacrificial…

Sallust discusses power in the preface of The Conspiracy of Catiline, he states that power can come from the mind or the body, but he makes the argument that the power of the mind is more resilient than the power of the body (Sal.Cat.pre.1.12-14). Bodily power is strength and might, while the power of the mind involves mental prowess and knowledge. He uses the example of war and says that in the beginning there was a focus on physical power rather than knowledge through strategizing, but after…

It sits posterior to the nasal and oral cavities and posterior to the larynx. It is divided into nasal, oral, and laryngeal parts. Beginning at the superior end is the nasopharynx, then the oropharynx, and inferiorly, the laryngopharynx. The anterior part of the nasopharynx may be regarded as the posterior portion of the nasal cavity, with which it has a common function as part of the respiratory system. When swallowing, the nasopharynx is blocked and closed by the soft tissue of the uvula.…