Definition Of Isotonic Solution Isotonic Solution: Imagine you’re in the hospital and the nurse hooks you up to an IV. What is in that IV? Is it just water? No way. If you were pumped full of pure water, your blood cells would burst. How horrible would that be? That IV is full of saline, […]
Definition Of Mesoderm Mesoderm: The mesoderm forms mesenchyme, mesothelium, non-epithelial blood cells and coelomocytes. Mesothelium lines coeloms. Mesoderm forms the muscles in a process known as myogenesis, septa (cross-wise partitions) and mesenteries (length-wise partitions); and forms part of the gonads (the rest being the gametes). Myogenesis is specifically a function of mesenchyme. Mesoderm, the middle of the three germ layers, or masses of cells (lying between […]
Hypoglossal Nerve Disorders Hypoglossal Nerve: The hypoglossal nerve is the twelfth cranial nerve, and innervates all the extrinsic and intrinsic muscles of the tongue, except for the palatoglossus which is innervated by the vagus nerve.[a] It is a nerve with a solely motor function. The nerve arises from the hypoglossal nucleus in the brain stem as a number of small rootlets, passes through the hypoglossal canal and down through the neck, and […]
What Is Specific Volume? Specific Volume: Imagine a rock weighing 5 kg (about 11 pounds). You can probably picture the size of a rock like that – while you could carry it around, you couldn’t exactly start skipping it on a lake. Now imagine a 5 kg sponge. A sponge the same size as your […]