Our skin and its ancillary structures – certain glands, hair, and nails – make up the largest organ system of the human body, known as the Integumentary System. Skin is arranged in several layers and connected by the hypodermis, or…
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Bad Breath – Keep it or Ditch it Halitosis is defined as a condition of having offensive-smelling breath; bad breath. It is quite embarrassing to be told you have bad breath. You don’t want anyone near or around you. However…
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The average person can live from 4 to 6 weeks without food and about 1 week without any water. Without oxygen, the biological breakdown of the human form begins to occur within three minutes. Take some time to ponder the…
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The scientific name for Bad Breath is Halitosis, and the dictionary definition of Halitosis, taken from The Oxford Paperback Dictionary is “breath that smells unpleasant”. Bad breath is usually caused by bacteria which live on the coating on the gums…
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Blood pressure is a measure of how forcefully your blood is pressing against your artery walls with each heartbeat. Blood pressure is gauged by two numbers such as 120//80 which is spoken as one twenty over eighty. The first number…
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Hypertrophy is the enlargement of a body part due to increased size of the individual cells of that part. It is important to distinguish between hypertrophy and hyperplasia, which is an increase in body part size due to an increase…
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Here’s a well known myth, that humans use only 10% of their brains. The other part is unusable or used mostly for mystical powers such as telepathy or similar. What does this percent mean – number of brain cells, area…
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I didn’t realize that we use that much of our brains. I definitely know people, some with PhDs and other academic degrees, who don’t use that much. You’re wondering why I have come to this conclusion and how can someone…
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Pulse rate is the palpable feeling over an artery and represents the rate at which the heart is beating. To be more specific, the pulse rate would closely correlate with time of systolic contraction that takes place in the heart…
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Homeostasis is a condition that the body strives to maintain all the time. The word Homeostasis comes from the Greek words; homoios which means “similar” and the word stasis with the meaning “stopping” or “standing” and it refers to a…
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