Medical Science

The kidney is the site where urine is formed.  For this reason it is an indispensable organ for maintaining homeostasis of the body function.  In addition to urine formation it is also important for other functions of the body such…
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Making healthy choices regularly in life can lower the amount of damage a person experiences from problems like varicose veins. The circulatory system can develop more than one problem. Some circulatory problems are congenital, because they are with a person…
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What is an intracerebral hemorrhage? Anyone with a passing familiarity with medical terms or latin can see that it has something to do with blood and the brain, but this type of hemorrhage is particularly serious, and needs to be…
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Potassium ions are alkali metal ions which are important physiologically due to their important function in nerve conduction and muscle contraction.  For this reason the body has allocated two known hormones to regulate their level in the blood.  This is in…
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Cartilage and bone are both stiff connective tissues which form an essential structural component of the body of animal organisms, including human beings. However, they are also quite different in both composition and function. Bones are extremely hard, dense tissue…
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In a portrait of a thin female, a horizontally lying bone can most often be visible which extends from the shoulder to the breast bone. The masses know it as the ‘collar bone’ and the medics refer to it as…
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What is a ‘gland’? Humans, or many other animals for that matter, will rely on certain specialized tissue structures called glands in order to provide them with certain types of secretions which can be a hormone, enzyme or else some…
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The upper limb is probably the part of the body that is most involved with the external environment. The one thing that differentiates us from most animals is the opposable thumb, which has evolved over many years to be a…
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Water is the major compound in the human body.  It constitutes more than 50% of the total body mass.  Its importance stems from the fact that it can solvate many molecules including proteins and electrolytes in addition to many other…
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In this article, I will discuss how the pH of the blood is regulated in addition to the mechanisms that stand this regulation.  The pH of the blood is tightly regulated and is kept within a narrow range that does not…
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