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Body Types Essays and Term Papers
Muscular Dystrophyrefers to, not one, but a group of muscle diseases. These diseases have three features in common: they are hereditary; they are progressive; and each causes a characteristic and selective pattern of weakness. Duchenne (DMD) is the most prevalent and severe childhood form of this group of ...
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Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder(ADHD), is the most common psychiatric disorder among children today. It’s symptoms are not necessarily obvious and start at various times. Some children give indication of having the disorder before they are born, others are not diagnosed with having it until their preteen years. ADHD ...
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Mononucleosis 3Infectious mononucleosis -- known popularly as "mono" or "the kissing disease" -- has been recognized for more than a century. An estimated 90 percent of mononucleosis cases are caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes virus group. Most of the remaining cases are caused by ...
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DreamingLucid Dreams are the playground of the mind. Anything can happen when one is . The only limitation is that we only rarely realize the freedoms granted to us in our dreams while we have them. Lucid is the ability to know when one is , and be able to influence what will be dreamt. A normal dream ...
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Nervous SystemThe two major subdivisions of the are the
central and the peripheral .
The CNS consists of the brain and the spinal cord, it's
responsible for integrating, processing, and coordinating
sensory data and motor commands. The CNS integrates balance
and limb position and coordinates your ...
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Lucid DreamingDreams are the playground of the mind. Anything can happen when one is
dreaming. The only limitation is that we only rarely realize the freedoms
granted to us in our dreams while we have them. is the ability to
know when one is dreaming, and be able to influence what will be dreamt. A
normal ...
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The History Of Birth ControlWell we're not all little kids here, we know about sex, and we know
that we as humans like to have sex, unfortunately ( or fortunately depends
on how you look at it) the product of the horizontal polka is a sweet
little baby, and that might not always be wanted. So therefore we have
these neat ...
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Being Physically FitAccording to Steven Blair, More than sixty percent of American adults do not get the recommended amount of physical activity. In fact, twenty-five percent are not active at all. Nearly half of all American youths 12-21 years of age are not vigorously active on a regular basis. Moreover, ...
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The Safety Of Our Food SupplyTheir is a lot of controversy right now about the safety of some food aditives that are present in our food supply. A few of the major concerns are about the following: Preservatives, MSGs, Food Dyes and Fat Substitutes.
Before judging what is safe and what is not we must establish a few ...
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VitaminsIn the early 20th century the discovery of began. Today there
is a chance that there are some that are still undiscovered. The
definition of vitamin is: one of several substances necessary for animal
nutrition, and occurring in minute quantities in natural foods; numerous types
have been ...
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Breast ImplantsOne of the first uses of silicone in a medical implant came in the form of
lifesaving tubes implanted into young children to funnel excess fluid from the
brain into the chest cavity, where the fluid could be safely metabolized and
excreted. Since these "shunts" were first used, in the late 1950s, ...
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AutismThe term " was first used more than 50 years ago by psychiatrist named Dr. Leo Kanner. He was working at Johns Hopkins University’s, Child Psychiatric Clinic with a group of children who were most often classified as emotionally disturbed or mentally retarded. Dr. Kanner noticed a pattern of ...
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AustraliaExecutive Summary
There are many components to a successful organization, among them is a steady
flow of innovative products that are consistently produced to high standards,
available to customers when and where they are needed, and backed with diligent
service and support. We will demonstrate ...
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InfanticideKilling your baby. What could be more depraved? Every year hundreds of women and men commit -they kill their newborns or let them die. Most s remain undiscovered but every now and then a janitor follows a trail of blood to a tiny body in a trash bin. (Pinker, New York Times) , the deliberate ...
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Alcoholism 3Alcohol consumption Alcohol, probably the oldest drug known, has been used at least since the earliest societies for which records exist. Of the numerous types of alcohol, ethyl alcohol is the type consumed in drinking. In its pure form it is a clear substance with little odor. People drink ...
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MononucleosisInfectious -- known popularly as "mono" or "the kissing disease" -- has been recognized for more than a century. An estimated 90 percent of cases are caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes virus group. Most of the remaining cases are caused by certain other herpes ...
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Egypt 3Egyptian Art: Old, Middle and New Kingdoms
Art historians, Egyptologists, and archeologists have made fascinating discoveries about the artifacts, pharaohs, and culture of Egypt since the discovery in 1799 of the Rosetta Stone. It led to the decoding of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Pharaonic names, ...
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CatscanI chose this topic because I a found it as a very interesting thing which I wanted to know more about. I have been CT-scanned when I had concussion after a car accident when I was seven. Also because my father has been under a CT-scanner and a lot of my friends.
Anatomists, morphologists and ...
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HemophiliaIn the human body, each cell contains 23 pairs of chromosomes, one of each pair inherited through the egg from the mother, and the other inherited through the sperm of the father. Of these chromosomes, those that determine sex are X and Y. Females have XX and males have XY. In addition to the ...
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