Paragonimus Westermani-Lung Fluke Infection

Paragonimus Westermani Paragonimus westermani is a species of lung fluke acquired by a food-borne parasitic infection. P. westermani can cause a severe and fatal infection if left misdiagnosed and untreated. P. westermani is also known as the Japanese lung fluke or oriental lung fluke because infections are endemic in eastern …

HEART FAILURE

Heart failure is the main topic of my steam project that I want to describe more about it.   Basically, my steam project will cover heart failure types, the process of its anatomy description and its symptoms and treatments.   It is known to us that the heart is important …

Ovarian Cysts

I made a children’s book describing ovulation and ovarian cysts. Because it’s my art piece, it is a little more simplified than my report. I tried to show what the ovaries look like before and after the growth of cysts and how they can affect people. STEAM A&P2

Tapeworm

What I was going for here was a person opening up a door to their intestines, where you can see that they have a (scotch) tapeworm in their duodenum. Tapeworms are segmented, which is represented by the visible turns in the worm following along the intestine. Tapeworms are a parasite …

Pneumothorax

I made a model of the lungs in order to demonstrate one of the ways in which one could develop a pneumothorax. A pneumothorax is a condition that develops when air gets inside of the pleural space. This can occur from air escaping the lungs or air entering the the …