Medical Science

 When a person has a stroke, often the cause is a clot in one of the blood vessels in the brain. The clot blocks the flow of blood and the brain starvation that results can lead to paralysis and even…
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Depending on your viewpoint, it is either surprising or not at all that human beings are included in the classification of the animal kingdom. According to this system, human beings fall into the kingdom animalia’, phylum chordata’, subphylum vertebrata’, order…
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The mind’s eyes and ears: Can you hear it? Listen; listen very carefully. Say inwardly to yourself: That’s amazing!’ Did you hear it? Your own voice -inside your head. How can you hear that? What is the audiological mechanism and…
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Useless? The appendix?! Surely you jest. The appendix is widely renowned as the most volatile and unpredictable of the “organs” (a technical term used by doctors meaning “squishy thing inside you which may go off at any moment. Duck!”). This…
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Sleep, everyone needs it and it takes up enough time to be considered a second job, but it is very important to our health and mind. It seems to be an evolutional chink in our armor of productivity but is…
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The human brain is an incredible little machine we have. It is the primary part of our central nervous system along with the spinal cord, but it also has the power to send and receive messages to and from our…
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Like a telephone, the ear translates sound waves into electrical impulses. What we perceive as sound starts out as vibration, which spreads in waves, usually though the air. To get to the brain the waves must be transformed into electrical…
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If a person can just see with bionic eyes, he or she would see that our body is filled with blood. Blood flow is very important in maintaining homeostasis or balance in a person’s normal functioning. Any alteration in blood…
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Most people will never need to know what the plantar fascia is, it is only when it starts to cause issues that they will find out. Unfortunately, once one has plantar fasciitis it can be a little too late to…
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Phakomatous choristoma is a rare lesion that generally occurs on or near the eyelid and is often mistaken as a cyst or other type of lesion (or tumor). The lesion is usually congenital, which means that it is present at…
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