07 MAY 2012 by ideonexus

 Molecules of Water and Air Passed Through Famous People

Take water. It's simple, common, and vital. There are more molecules of water in an eight-ounce cup of the stuff than there are cups of water in all the world's oceans. Every cup that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world's water supply holds enough molecules to mix fifteen hundred of them into every other cup of water in the world. No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc. How about ai...
Folksonomies: wonder atoms scale
Folksonomies: wonder atoms scale
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Best explanation for why the H2O in a glass of water has molecules that passed through the kidneys of historical figures (even dinosaurs).

28 APR 2012 by ideonexus

 Death by Phosphorous Poisoning

The autopsy of a person who had died from phosphorus poisoning would reveal inflammation a haemorrhage in the stomach and bowel, the liver would show fatty changes and both it, and the kidneys would be enlarged, greasy and of a yellow colour. But the most convincing proof of death due to phosphorus exposure would be to turn off all the lights in the mortuary and see its tell-tale glow...
Folksonomies: medicine medical autopsy
Folksonomies: medicine medical autopsy
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Has many symptoms, but the most disturbing is that the victim glows in the dark.

30 JAN 2012 by ideonexus

 Homeostasis

The constant conditions which are maintained in the body might be termed equilibria. That word, however, has come to have fairly exact meaning as applied to relatively simple physico-chemical states, in closed systems, where known forces are balanced. The coordinated physiological processes which maintain most of the steady states in the organism are so complex and so peculiar to living beings- involving, as they may, the brain and nerves, the heart, lungs, kidneys and spleen, all working coo...
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Origin of the word, meaning the tendency of animal life to maintain an internal equilibrium.

30 AUG 2011 by ideonexus

 While the Patient is Alive, the Urine is Ours

When the patient dies the kidneys may go to the pathologist, but while he lives the urine is ours. It can provide us day by day, month by month, and year by year, with a serial story of the major events going on within the kidney.
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Addis remarks on learning about the state of the patient's kidneys from urine tests.

21 MAY 2011 by ideonexus

 The First Moments After Birth

After the baby is born, most doctors, including myself, hold it in our lap momentarily, to allow baby blood in the placenta to pass by gravity through the umbilical cord back into the baby, and to wipe the baby as clean as possible with gauze squares. We feel this is a substitute for the animal mother's licking her baby. This probably has nothing to do with cleanliness but serves as a dermal reflex. It is amazing how many babies void or empty their bladders upon this stimulation. It has been ...
Folksonomies: pregnancy childbirth
Folksonomies: pregnancy childbirth
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What happens medically and biologically in the first moments after a baby is born.