Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel disease that affects the lining of the digestive tract. Symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, fatigue, loss of appetite, weight loss, blood in stool, fevers, severe stomach pain, and sores in the mouth. The areas with red circles show the areas that are inflamed when Crohn’s …
It is not all-inclusive of rhythms or treatment. They were originally on a darker background, but had to re-print onto a white one for the lighting last minute.
The red cake illustrates a normal functioning heart. The black cake demonstrates a heart that has experienced a heart attack. The color black, shows that blood clots have blocked the blood flow to the heart. The cut piece illustrates loss of tissue and damage.
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This is a drawing I’ve done with charcoal of healthy lungs and smoker’s lungs. It is showing the long term affects that smoking has on the lungs. I’ve labeled which lungs are which and the sticky note labels state the visible differences between the two. A&P Final <— I …
For our project we chose to focus on emphysema. As active emergency medical technicians on an ambulance crew, COPD and emphysema are extremely common complaints that we see in the field. Emphysema is a form of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and it is distinguished by an abnormal increase in …
Opisthorchiasis viverrini is a parasitic liver fluke (a type of flatworm). This parasite is more commonly known as the Southeast Asian liver fluke and is a common infection of the civet cat and other fish-eating mammals, such as domestic cats and dogs. People are infected after eating raw, salted, pickled, …
For my STEAM project, I chose to dig a little deeper in to Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS is an autoimmune disease that attacks the myelin sheath coverings on the axons of nerve cells. The myelin sheath acts as an electrochemical insulator to help transmit signals to the body, so when …
I used block prints to make a collage of some of the major stages of embryonic development, which includes weeks 3 through 8 of development of the embryo. The first print on the upper left is the blastocyst. The embryonic stage begins with implantation of this blastocyst which is what …
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 …