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Yellow fever

...k vomit or sometimes The American Plague ) is an acute viral disease. It is still an important cause of hemorrhage illness in several African and South American countries despite existence of an effective vaccine . In the past it was a source of several devastating epidemics. The disease is c...

Thermoregulation

...es can be watched in any patient suffering from an acute fever. The lower limit of temperature that man can endure depends on many things, but no one can survive a temperature of 45 C (113 F) or above for very long. Mammalian muscle becomes rigid with heat rigor at about 50 C., and obviously should this te...

Muscle

...s at all, the myoglobin thus released may cause acute renal failure . Tumors of muscle include: Smooth muscle: leiomyoma (benign, very common in the uterus ), leiomyosarcoma (malignant, very rare) Striated muscle: rhabdomyoma (benign) and rhabdomyosarcoma (malignant) - both very rare ...

Magnetic resonance imaging

...omography , which often does not detect changes of acute infarct for up to 4-6 hours) and remains for up to...h, DWI sequences are extraordinarily sensitive for acute stroke. Diffusion MRI is also a tool to study connections in the brain. In an isotropic medium (i...

Leaf

... sagittate: shaped like an arrowhead and with the acute basal lobes pointing downward. truncate: ending abruptly with a flat end, that looks cut off. Hairiness Leaves can show several degrees of hairiness. The meaning of several of the following terms can overlap. glabrous: no hairs of any kind...

Insulin

...e levels to rise, though not to levels which cause acute hyperglycemic symptoms, is not a sensible choice. ...quivalent to suffocation experimentation . Severe acute or prolonged hypoglycemia can result in brain damage or death. On July 23 , 2004 , news reports c...

Immune system

... several class of antimicrobial proteins, such as acute phase proteins ( C-reactive protein , for example, binds to the C-protein of S. pneumoniae - enhances phagocytosis and activates complement), lysozyme and the complement system . Complement system The complement system is a very comple...

Dialysis

... Hemodialysis The decision to dialyse In acute renal failure , dialysis is generally initiated when the renal function has deteriorated to an extent that it is threatening the body's physiology. In chronic renal failure (or end-stage renal failure , ESRD), the problem is usually longstandin...

Diabetes mellitus

...esults from omission of insulin, mismanagement of acute gastroenteritis (the "flu"), or an overwhelming n...betic coma Hyperosmotic diabetic coma is another acute problem associated with improper management of diabetes mellitus. It has some symptoms in common wit...

Computed axial tomography

...d). CT generally does not exclude infarct in the acute stage, but is useful to exclude a bleed (so antic... . Chest CT CT is excellent for detecting both acute and chronic changes in the lung parenchyma. For detection of airspace disease (such as pneumonia ...

Apoptosis

... , which is a form of cell death that results from acute tissue injury, apoptosis is carried out in an orde... cell death, from the necrosis that results from acute tissue injury [16] . They also noted that the structural changes characteristic of apoptosis (see t...

Alcohol

...nding on the dose and regularity of use, can cause acute respiratory failure or death and with chronic use can cause severe health problems, such as liver and brain damage. Other alcohols are substantially more poisonous than ethanol, partly because they take much longer to be metabolized, and often t...