The mediastinum is a double-walled membrane surrounding the heart but not the lungs. b. The pericardial cavity encloses the heart as well as the lungs. ... Fill in the blank: The visceral is the serous membrane covering the external surface of the lungs. What do you think ...
If some capillaries in the lungs are collapsed, what is the functional effect on the diffusion of O_2 and CO_2? What happens between the alveoli and the pulmonary capillaries? How does going from supine -> upright affect pulmonary vascular resistance? Why does the thoracic cavity expand in v...
11. On that day, terrorists collapsed the Twin Towers in New York City with commercial jet liners, leaving behind injured survivors buried under millions of pounds of rubble. Twenty FEMA USAR teams were dispatched to New York to rescue and recover the survivors. Trained SAR dogs were a key ...
We began to do ultrasound studies on the body. It turns out there's a lot you can do with it. I was a part of numerous studies on the ground where they were looking at every system in the body; I was looking at bones, some people were looking at what could be seen in the lung...
A bullet lodged deep within her chest. Emergency responders rushed her to the operating room and soon surgeons were struggling to control the bleeding in her collapsed lung. At first no one saw the other wound. Then an O.R. nurse noticed a small pool of blood near Susan’s head. A port...
The core of the collapsed star becomes so dense and the gravitational forces so great that nothing, not even light, can escape. A black hole is not a tunnel. Any object that enters the edge or event horizon of the black hole falls into it. The gravitational forces inside would rip any ...
Scientists haven't figured out exactly how all the gray matter in your brain works, but they do have an idea of which part lets you think. The cerebral cortex, which is the outermost part of your brain, is where thought and reasoning happen. These are your brain's higher functions -- ...
On Oct-2019 I was rushed to the hospital and found out my lungs collapsed, and was then given my painful diagnosis of LAM. It is a very rare lung disease that effects mostly women. There is no cure and there is only a few treatments, one being a lung transplant. I am alive so I...
There’s so much to share and I plan to do that soon, but I wanted to send my mom the teaching I gave on Joseph (in Genesis) at my Bible study and this is the only way my non-tech-savvy self can make it work. So… if you happen to have half an hour and need a little ...
Lusatia is being used for things where I say: that is not right. One must accept that large-scale industry cannot be established in the region; the soil has been severely damaged by coal mining”. The question for the future, he said, is therefore: "In which areas do we need to ...