As depicted in my art piece, osteoarthritis can be classified into five different grades: none (0), doubtful (1), minimal (2), moderate (3), and severe (4). Grade zero (none) is the absence of osteoarthritis, grade one (doubtful) can be described as doubtful joint space narrowing, grade two (minimal) has definite osteophytes …
My STEAM project is on the neuromuscular autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis. This relates to the course objective, “Describe how a muscle contraction is induced”. The first image is of a neuromuscular junction of a healthy individual, while the second is of an individual with myasthenia gravis. Typical NMJ An action …
The following is a scientific concept presentation expressed through art along with this STEAM project statement. The project chosen is the human compact bone, also called cortical bone, and reviews its structure and use. The drawing with this written statement displays a femur bone and an expanded diagram of the …
For the art portion of my project, I used clay to construct a model of a healthy motor neuron and muscle. I also constructed a model of a motor neuron affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS and a muscle suffering from atrophy. I have labeled dendrites, nucleus, cell …
Attached is a painting I did, demonstrating the overall nervous system in the middle. The nerve cells on the left side of the painting show a healthy string of neurons, with myelin sheaths and oligodendrocytes intact. On the right, depicted is the degenerative effects a disease like Multiple Sclerosis can …
These are my eyeballs, not to scale. The eyeball on the left is the one with glaucoma (you can see through the pupil) while the eyeball on the right is a normal eyeball. You can see the veins and nerve coming out of the back. The one thing you cannot …
