Encyclopedia - Bacteria In The Human Body: Encyclopedia - Bacteria In The Human Body
The human body contains a large number of bacteria, most of them performing tasks that are useful or even essential to human survival. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Body Disposal: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Body Disposal - Special Cases
Where it is not possible for a body to be disposed of promptly, it is generally stored at a morgue. Where this is not possible, such as i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body - The Muscles Of The Head
facial expression: auricularis anterior - buccinator - corrugator supercilii - depressor anguli oris - depressor labii inferioris - depr...   » Read the article

Article - Auras: The Human Energy Body - The Aura
The Human Energy Body - Aura Everyone is surrounded by an electromagnetic field, and this field is called an aura. The aura has been dep...   » Read the article

Article - The Subtle Bodies: The Yogic Anatomy Of Human Potentialities
The Subtle Bodies: The Yogic Anatomy of Human Potentialities Through exceedingly detailed meditations over thousands of hours, the yogi...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritual Quotes: Humans Are Divided Into Two Parts: Body And Spirit. The Body Is Like A House, But The Spirit Is Like An Automobile--always On The Move.
Humans are divided into two parts: body and spirit. The body is like a house, but the spirit is like an automobile--always on the move...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Weight: Encyclopedia - Body Weight
Body weight is simply the weight of any animal, including humans. The term is usually encountered in connection with: food and feeding b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia - Human
Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autopsy: Encyclopedia - Autopsy
An autopsy, also known as a post-mortem examination or an obduction, is a medical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humidity: Encyclopedia - Humidity
Humidity is the concentration of water vapor in the air. The concentration can be expressed as absolute humidity, specific humidity, or r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burial: Encyclopedia - Burial
Burial, also called interment and (when applied to human burial) inhumation, is the act of placing a person or object into the ground. Us...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscle: Encyclopedia - Muscle
Muscle is a contractile form of tissue. It is one of the four major tissue types, the other three being epithelium, connective tissue and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements: Encyclopedia - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements
The abundance of a chemical element measures how common the element is, or how much of the element there is. Abundance of the chemical el...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brain To Body Mass Ratio: Encyclopedia - Brain To Body Mass Ratio
Brain to body mass ratio (also known as the Encephalization Quotient - EQ) is a rough estimate of the possible intelligence of an organis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia - Death
Death is the cessation of physical life in a living organism, or the state of the organism after that event. Death - Interpretations of d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeostasis: Encyclopedia - Homeostasis
Homeostasis is the property of an open system, especially living organisms, to regulate its internal environment to maintain a stable, co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body - The Muscles Of The Trunk
BACK: interspinales | intertransversarii | multifidus | rotatores | sacrospinalis | semispinalis | splenius capitis | splenius cervicis S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body - The Muscles Of The Upper Limb
VERTEBRAL COLUMN: levator scapulae | rhomboid (major, minor) | serratus anterior | latissimus dorsi ANTERIOR AND LATERAL THORACIC WALLS: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body - The Muscles Of The Lower Limb
ILIAC REGION: gluteus (maximus, medius, minimus) | iliacus | gemellus (inferior, superior) | obturator (externus, internus) | quadratus f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Muscles Of The Human Body - The Muscles Of The Anterolateral Region Of The Neck
LATERAL CERVICAL: sternocleidomastoid | trapezius SUPRAHYOID: stylohyoid | digastric | geniohyoid | mylohyoid INFRAHYOID: omohyoid | ster...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Iron Metabolism: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Iron Metabolism - Body Iron Stores
Most well-nourished people in developing countries have 3-4 grams of iron in their bodies. Of this, perhaps 2.5 g is bound up in the hemo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humidity: Encyclopedia Ii - Humidity - Effects On Human Body
Humidity can make the warmth of the surrounding air feel as if it is warmer than the actual temperature would suggest, because the coolin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Iron Metabolism: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Iron Metabolism - How Cells Get Their Iron From The Body
As discussed above, most of the iron in the body is located on hemoglobin molecules of red blood cells. So, aging red blood cells are deg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Settlement Of Dead Human Bodies
In most cultures, before the onset of significant decay, the body undergoes some type of ritual disposal, usually either cremation or dep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Iron Metabolism: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Iron Metabolism - How The Body Gets Its Iron
Most of the iron in the body is hoarded and recycled by the reticuloendothelial system which breaks down aged red blood cells. However, p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, Human physical appearance & Human height Humans exhi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Spirit
Humans apply different approaches to attempt to answer fundamental questions about topics like the nature of the universe (cosmology), it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Terminology
In general, the word "people" is a collective or plural term for any specific group of individual persons. However, when used to refer to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual features of a social group, including ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Biology
Human - Anatomy and physiology. Main articles: Human anatomy, Human physical appearance, and Human height Human body types varies subst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Cavity: Encyclopedia Ii - Body Cavity - Pseudocoel
In some protostomes, the embryonic blastocoele persists as a body cavity. These protostomes have a fluid filled main body cavity unlined ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body Cavity: Encyclopedia Ii - Body Cavity - Coelom
A coelom is a cavity lined by an epithelium derived from mesenchyme. Organs formed inside a coelom can freely move, grow, and develop ind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subtle Body: Encyclopedia Ii - Subtle Body - Perceiving The Subtle Body
Clairvoyants say that they can see the subtle bodies in the aura. There are several books (Barbara Brennan's Hands of Light being perhaps...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Terminology
In general, the word "people" is a collective or plural term for any specific group of individual persons. However, when used to refer to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Spirit
Main articles: Spirituality, Religion, and Human nature Humans apply different approaches to attempt to answer fundamental questions abou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subtle Body: Encyclopedia Ii - Subtle Body - The Subtle Body In Rosicrucianism
The Seven-fold constituition of Man Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings teach that man is a complex being who possesses: A Dense Body, wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Main articles: Culture of human beings and Culture Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Spirit
Humans apply different approaches to attempt to answer fundamental questions about topics like the nature of the universe (cosmology), it...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Mind
Main articles: Mind and Consciousness Consciousness is a state of mind, said to possess qualities such as, self-awareness, sentience, sap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human: Encyclopedia Ii - Human - Culture
Culture is defined here as a set of distinctive material, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual features of a social group, including ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subtle Body: Encyclopedia Ii - Subtle Body - The Subtle Body In Anthroposophy
This same theme (of dense to subtle Body and Plane/Universe) is also found in Rudolph Steiner's Anthroposophical teachings, although it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Subtle Body: Encyclopedia Ii - Subtle Body - The Subtle Body In Theosophy
Whilst the Eastern esoteric traditions emphasise a single subtle body (apart from the Vedantic concept of five koshas), in the West (begi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Iron Metabolism: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Iron Metabolism - Importance Of Iron Regulation
For human purposes, it's most important to understand that iron is not just an absolute requirement for life for humans but also most bac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Iron Metabolism: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Iron Metabolism - Regulation Of Circulating Iron Levels
Iron is too toxic to simply leave iron uptake up to the cells that might or might not need it. The body needs to control the amount of ir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anatomy: Encyclopedia Ii - Anatomy - Human Anatomy
From a utilitarian point of view the study of humans is the most important division of special anatomy, and this human anatomy may be app...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strontium: Encyclopedia Ii - Strontium - Precautions
In its pure form strontium is extremely reactive with air and spontaneously combusts. It is therefore considered to be a fire hazard. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strontium: Encyclopedia Ii - Strontium - History
Adair Crawford recognized the mineral strontianite, named after the Scottish village of Strontian, as differing from other barium mineral...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strontium: Encyclopedia Ii - Strontium - Notable Characteristics
Due to its extreme reactivity to air, this element always naturally occurs combined with other elements and compounds, as in the minerals...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strontium: Encyclopedia Ii - Strontium - Applications
At present the primary use for strontium is in glass for color television cathode ray tubes. Other commercial uses: Production of ferrit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strontium: Encyclopedia Ii - Strontium - Occurrence
Strontium commonly occurs in nature, averaging 0.034% of all igneous rock and is found chiefly as the form of the sulfate mineral celesti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Autopsy: Encyclopedia Ii - Autopsy - General Information
The term "autopsy" derives from the Greek for "to see for oneself". "Necropsy" is from the Greek for "seeing a dead body". There are two ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Strontium: Encyclopedia Ii - Strontium - Isotopes
The alkali earth metal strontium has four stable, naturally occurring isotopes: Sr-84 (0.56%), Sr-86 (9.86%), Sr-87 (7.0%) and Sr-88 (82....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rationalization Sociology: Encyclopedia Ii - Rationalization Sociology - Rationalization In The Modern World
Examples of rationalization in the modern world abound, and a comprehensive list would be infeasible. Following is a list of some of gene...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humidity: Encyclopedia Ii - Humidity - Specific Humidity
Specific humidity is a method of expressing the amount of aqueous vapor in air by using a ratio of water vapor to dry air. Specific humid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Humidity: Encyclopedia Ii - Humidity - Relative Humidity
Relative humidity is the ratio of the current vapor pressure of water in any gas (especially air) to the equilibrium vapor pressure, at w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Physiological Consequences Of Human Death
For the human body, the physiological consequences of death follow a recognized sequence through early changes into bloating, then decay ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Exhumation
The digging up of a buried body is called exhumation, and is considered sacrilege by most cultures that bury their dead. However, there i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Alternatives To Burial
Human bodies are not always buried, and many cultures may not bury their dead in every case. Alternatives to burial include the following...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscle: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscle - The Strongest Human Muscle
Depending on what definition of "strongest" is used, many different muscles in the human body can be characterized as being the "stronges...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Burial Practices
In many human cultures throughout history, human corpses were usually buried in soil. Burial grounds have been uncovered all over the wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Reasons For Human Burial
After death, the corpse will start to decay and emit unpleasant odors due to the gases released by bacterial decomposition. Burial preven...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeostasis: Encyclopedia Ii - Homeostasis - Biological Homeostasis
Homeostasis is one of the fundamental characteristics of living things. It is the maintenance of the internal environment within tolerabl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Alternatives To Burial
Not all cultures bury their dead, and many of those that do bury their dead do not do so in all cases. Alternatives include: Burial at s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muscle: Encyclopedia Ii - Muscle - Physiology
The three types of muscle have significant differences, but all use the movement of actin against myosin to produce contraction and relax...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burial: Encyclopedia Ii - Burial - Reasons For Human Burial
Rotting corpses emit unpleasant odors (due to gases released by bacterial decomposition) and look gruesome. Burial prevents the living fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Criteria Of Human Death
Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: biological, legal, and religious. These different do...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Defining The Moment Of Human Death
There is an asymmetry between life and death. While cells and organisms may die, they have never been observed to arise from non-living m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Causes Of Human Death In The Us
In 2002, in the United States, the top causes of death were: Heart disease: 696,947 Cancer: 557,271 Stroke: 162,672 Chronic lower respir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements: Encyclopedia Ii - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements - Abundance Of Elements In The Solar System
The Solar System was created from the remnants of previous stellar systems that went supernova, and is hence, relative to the rest of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements: Encyclopedia Ii - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements - Abundance Of Elements In Earth
Scientists believe that the Earth formed from the same cloud of matter that formed the Sun. Abundance of the chemical elements - Abundan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Biological Death
Death is the irreversable ending of life. Biologically, death can occur to wholes, to parts, or to both. For example, it is possible for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - The Process Of Dying
Death - Cell death. A. Normal cellular function 1. Production of free energy required for vital cellular metabolism 2. Production of e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Causes Of Human Death In The Us
In 2002, there were 1,293,000 intentional abortions in the United States. Some would count these in death statistics. In 2002, in the Uni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Consciousness After Death
Belief in consciousness after death (e.g. afterlife, underworld, reincarnation, heaven, hell) is common and ancient. This point of view h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Unwritten Customs And Superstitions
Since writing someone's name with a range of years, such as John Doe (1950 - 2000), implies that the subject has died, it would be a faux...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Unwritten Customs And Superstitions
Since writing someone's name with a range of years, such as John Doe (1950 - 2000), implies that the subject has died, it would be a faux...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements: Encyclopedia Ii - Abundance Of The Chemical Elements - Abundance Of Elements In The Universe
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the known Universe; helium is second. However, after this, the rank of abundance does not contin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Signs Of Approaching Death
Death - When death is imminent. Physical death is a progressive process, during which there are some signs that usually indicate that d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Signs Of Approaching Death
Death - When death is imminent. Physical death is a progressive process, during which there are some signs that usually indicate that d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeostasis: Encyclopedia Ii - Homeostasis - Overview
The term is most often used in the sense of biological homeostasis. Multicellular organisms require a homeostatic internal environment, i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Weight: Encyclopedia Ii - Weight - Human Weight In The Medical Sciences And Ordinary Language
Although many people prefer the less-ambiguous term body mass to body weight, the term weight is overwhelmingly used in daily English spe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - What Happens To Humans After Death?
The second question is of what, apart from the cessation of metabolism and the onset of physiological processes of decay, happens, especi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Criteria Of Human Death: Medical Religious And Legal
Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: medical, religious, and legal. These different domai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Criteria Of Human Death: Medical, Religious, And Legal
Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: medical, religious, and legal. These different domai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Criteria Of Human Death: Medical Religious And Legal
Human death can be defined by three intrinsically different but overlapping domains: medical, religious, and legal. These different domai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - What Happens To Humans After Death?
The second question is of what, apart from the cessation of metabolism and the onset of physiological processes of decay, happens, especi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexual Differentiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexual Differentiation - Chromosomal Sex Differences
Humans have 46 chromosomes, including 2 sex chromosomes, XX in females and XY in males. It is obvious that the Y chromosome must carry at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexual Differentiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexual Differentiation - Psychological And Behavioral Differentiation In Humans
Human adults and children show many psychological and behavioral sex differences, both dichotomous and dimorphic. Some (e.g., dress) are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Causes Of Death In The United States
The causes of death vary by area and by age group. In 2002 in the U.S. the top 10 causes of death were: Heart disease: 696,947 Cancer: 5...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Personification Of Death
Main article: Death (personification) Death is also a mythological figure who has existed in popular culture since the earliest days of s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - Most Causal Causes Of Death
The causes of death vary by area and by age group. In 2002 in the U.S. the top 10 causes of death were: Heart disease: 696,947 Cancer: 5...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Homeostasis: Encyclopedia Ii - Homeostasis - Other Fields
The term has come to be used in other fields, as well. An actuary may refer to "risk homeostasis", where (for example) people who have an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Constitutional Court Of South Africa: Encyclopedia Ii - Constitutional Court Of South Africa - Proceedings In Court
The court does not hear evidence or question witnesses. It does not decide directly whether accused persons are guilty or whether damages...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cabin Pressurization: Encyclopedia Ii - Cabin Pressurization - Pressurized Flight
Aircraft which routinely fly above 10,000 feet are generally equipped with an oxygen system fed through masks or canulas (typically for s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sexual Differentiation: Encyclopedia Ii - Sexual Differentiation - Other Body Differentiation
General habitus and shape of body and face, as well as sex hormone levels, are similar in prepubertal boys and girls. As puberty progress...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gestalt Therapy: Encyclopedia Ii - Gestalt Therapy - Being Human
The practice of Gestalt therapy is based firmly in the personal experience of both the client and the therapist; furthermore, Gestalt the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Death - When Is A Person Dead?
There is an asymmetry between life and death. While cells and organisms may die, they have never been observed to arise from non-living m...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Temple Dreams Symbol: Christian Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Temple
Temple: See also House, Sanctuary, Tent or Tabernacle: God's habitation or dwelling; man's human body; of the Lord Jesus Christ. (Heb....   » Read the article