to protect the inflamed appendix, also occurs sometimes. Rebound tenderness, known as Blumberg's sign, is when pain is felt upon release or removal of pressure rather than upon application of pressure and indicative ofperitonitis, the infection that results from the rupture of the appendix. ...
Yourappendixis a small finger-like pouch extending down from the large intestine. When it becomes infected and inflamed, the result is appendicitis. If untreated, the appendix can burst, infecting the abdominal cavity. What does the iliac crest do? Many important abdominal and core muscles are a...
As the knee bends, tension on the IT band shifts from the front to the back. That is, it “pops out” a bit, first a little ahead of the knee, then further back — which can look an awful lot like movement. But it’s just parallel fibres tightening in sequence, like a wave, as...
In fact, scientists have yet to identify a single organism, whether that’s something as large as an animal or as small as an insect or bacteria, which does not produce glycan-binding proteins.They find them whenever they have looked for them in a given species. For example, research publi...
An influx from the outside to the inside is the zero level of biological survival for purely thermodynamic reasons, and because of this situation an ounce lost could mean death whereby an ounce gained does not necessarily mean life, and if it does it's only...
This is what (my) an inflamed appendix looks like from inside (my) a colon She swung her laptop around and showed me the uneventful endoscopy. Then she got a little excited about the colonoscopy. “See this? It’s your appendix!” ...
On other occasions he reiterated this denunciation: “Nationalism is an inflamed condition of national consciousness which can be, and on occasion has been, tolerant and peaceful,” he declared in 1991 [19]. What nationalism “simply means,” he explained to Ramin Jahanbegloo, is “that we ...
I just got home yesterday from the hospital after having an hysterectomy. During surgery, my doctor discovered that I had a perforated small intestine, which evidently had not leaked. Another surgeon was called in to fix it before they even continued with my hysterectomy. I am a little freaked...
To assess a patient for Rovsing's Sign, the doctor pushes gently on the left hand side of the area below the ribs. Patients who feel a pain on the opposite side of the abdomen are positive for Rovsing's Sign. Another positive indicator of the sign is if the patient feels the pain on...