You Can’t Handle the Tooth! The digestive process is composed of six steps: ingestion, propulsion, mechanical/physical digestion, chemical digestion, absorption, and defecation. Each step plays important role to provide the body with nutrients (Betts Et al, 2013). Ingestion occurs in the mouth, where saliva containing enzymes that can start the …
As I mentioned in a previous unit I recently have had some close friends give birth for the first time. Unfortunately because of Covid-19 I was unable to attend the actual birth of either baby. I am thankful for technology and its advancement in the way that we have …
Cross-Section of the heart made out of clay. I made a “normal” heart for comparison and a heart with the defects of Tetralogy of Fallot. The last model shows how cardiac circulation is changed due to Tetralogy of Fallot, The atriums are unaffected, the change occurs at the ventricles. The …
I was never a quiet baby. I fussed all the time, and I was always sick, but never with anything more severe than the flu. One day, my mom was at her job as a high-school teacher when she got a call saying I was sick, but something was different …
Healthy Kidney- Cross-sectional view of a healthy kidney that I made with cake, fondant, and rice krispie treats. You can see the cortex, medulla (pyramids, canals), pelvis, arterioles, renal hilum, renal artery, renal vein and ureter. Kidney with IgA Nephropathy-This cake shows an advanced stage of IgA Nephropathy. The black around …
Cardiac Pacemaker The heart is a involuntary muscle that contracts on its own by and electrical impulse. The hearts internal battery so to speak is the sinus node that is located in the right atrium. There are four chambers of the heart where blood is pumped to two different places. …
For this semester’s STEAM Project, I chose to demonstrate the helpful advantages of breastfeeding to baby and mother and it extends being beneficial outside of just nursing. A sick baby’s saliva triggers physiological response in the nipple that tells the body to produce more antibodies in the milk to help …
For this semester, I decided to do my steam project on Asthma and how an inhaler helps the airway systems. Though asthma can not be cured, there are ways to cope with it and medication to help with the inflammation and relax the airways’ muscles.Steam
I focused on the digestive system, specifically what a digestive system looks like and how it functions after a total proctocolectomy with a permanent ileostomy. A total proctocolectomy involves removing the large intestine, colon, and rectum. An ileostomy is when the terminal ileum is brought through an incision in the …
