Optic nerve

In light of the unprecedented election on November 8, the year of our lord 2016, that elected Donald Trump as our next president, California residents woke up with a massive what the heck happened headache. How could this be? How did America afford to elect a temperamentally unfit, manifestly unqualified candidate to the White House? The answer is many, but yet no one knows why or how it happen. Subsequently, us Californians can turn our sorrows and despair over the fate and uncertainty of…

him out of her house. My father invited Jason to stay at his house. He took Jason under his wing and treated him like a second brother. My father is the bravest person I know. When he was 18 years old, he was diagnosed with having a cyst on his optic nerve. He had to get shunts put into his head to relieve the pressure on his brain. After his surgery, he was extremely sick for a month thinking that he was going to die, but overtime he recovered. Moreover, three years ago my dad was hit by a car…

birth weight, young gestational age, and prolonged oxygen supplementation” (Kondo H, 2013, 19: ). The eye begins to develop after the 16th week of pregnancy this is when the blood vessels of the retina begin to form in the back of the eye on the optic nerve. These blood vessels eventually grow towards the retina to and in its development by supplying vital nutrients and oxygen. The eye develops very rapidly in the last 12 weeks of the pregnancy and is not completely developed until several weeks…

1.2.7 RABIES (Hydrophobia) IN MAN Clinical features Once the incubation period is competed and the virus begins to multiply in the central nervous system. Clinical signs appear. It should be noted that once clinical signs of rabies begin, there is no treatment available that will cure the poor victim. Only symptomatic therapy will be done. Death is virtually inevitable. Two major clinical patterns of rabies can be distinguished. One is the furious type and other is dump type. The majority of…

The use of animals in medical research and testing is widely debated topic that spans decades and covers both the ethics and economics of the issue. There are two main groups within the debate surrounding animal testing: those who are for it and those who are against it. Animal testing can be described as the use of non-human animals in an experimental context that pertains to some form of medical testing (cosmetic allergy testing, cancer research, etc). As Donna Yarri the author of The Ethics…

For the third time in the past hour one has gone outside to get away. Get away also being known as taking a break from life. A smoke break. “On average, every cigarette takes away eleven minutes off one’s life each time they light. On average, smokers die at least 10 years younger than non-smokers” (“Did you know?” 8). Most people assume that smokers are unaware of the consequences it can have on themselves and others; however this is not the case. Smokers are in fact well aware of the costs…

At almost the same time in history, Ernst Leitz and Carl Zeiss had just invented the first distortion-free microscope, thereby establishing a standard in optics that still exists today. In another fortuitous development, Franz Nissl had revolutionized tissue staining. This made various cell constituents stand out. It also opened up an entirely new era in the study of brain cells and tissues. Doctor Alzheimer…

Comprising of seven billion people, the human race is segregated by different belief systems as a result of differing perceptions. It is from this simple reality that from the very beginning of human civilization, wars have been fought over what different cultures have perceived to be right or wrong. Therefore, human perception provides the basis for what is personally real and what is not; as an individual senses and interprets external information, action follows according to what has been…

Tropical areas of the world are heavily ravaged by the burdens of parasitic diseases. While malaria attracts much of the attention, there are still unreasonable burdens placed on communities by other filarial infections such as Onchocerciasis. Recently, there have been effective strategies used to eradicate Dracunculus medinensis from almost all endemic areas. Both Onchocerca and Dracunculus are nematodes they are radially symmetrical, have three tissue layers, and have a hydrostatic skeleton.…

Historical information about the Setting: Coming from a small town in the American South, the narrator moves to a Negros College after receiving a scholarship. After being expelled though, the narrator moves to the main city, Harlem in New York City. At the time, it was the major center of where African-American culture thrived and influenced many. The contrast between the North and South shown through the awe from the narrator showed the new sense of hope for the Black community. Harlem was a…