I created the knee joint using material, I either had, or created. The bones has been made out of modeling clay, which was shaped to form the bones that comprise the knee; patella, femur, tibia, fibula. To show the meniscus, there are small plates created out of hot glue with …
I decided to do my project on trigeminal neuralgia and to discuss the background of the trigeminal nerve as one of the 12 cranial nerves and its relation to the peripheral nervous system. I talked about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of this disorder in detail. I’m not super artistic …
This is showing the structures of the lower respiratory system. It relates to my essay which discusses some of the toxins found in most types of smoke and the damage they can do to different tissues in the respiratory system. \
Using the art of special effects make-up called moulage we are going to explore the four different tissue types and the importance of physical authenticity in replication for training. This project uses the Unit 5 case study Shark Attack! as a foundation.
I made my STEAM project about osteoporosis because I enjoyed learning about the disease. The woman in the beginning is drinking milk, but she hasn’t been having enough calcium as seen by the Ca++ tanks on the second page. This causes the osteoclasts to break down more bone than they’re supposed to. This leads the personified osteoblast at the end of the comic to be surprised that they’ll be unable to keep up with the osteoclasts’ activity.
My STEAM project was on the CNS and the PNS. I choose to use pipe cleaner because I wanted to show a blown up picture of the nervous system to get a better understanding of it. I decided to do the nervous system because this was the hardest section for …
This project is about the 4 bone cells in the human body. The red color is the osteoclast, and the blue is the osteoblast. Below them are the osteocytes, and the thin layer of yellow is the bone layer, or osteogenic cells. The first painting shows regular activity for these …
My drawing depicts the neurotransmitters able to flourish when caffeine binds and blocks adenosine receptors in our brain. It’s quite a literal piece of what’s secretly found in a simple cup of coffee, and the positive effects of such.
My goal was to demonstrate the effects of osteoarthritis in the knee. This is a degenerative condition characterized by worn down cartilage that causes things like swelling, stiffness, pain, and bony growths that form on the ends of bone due to the femur and the tibia rubbing against each other …