Muscle - Exercise. Exercise is often recommended as a means of improving motor skills, fitness and muscle strength. Exercise has several effects upon muscles, connective tissue and bone, and the nerves that stimulate the muscles. Muscle - Disease. Symptoms of muscle disease may include weakness or spasticity/rigidity, myoclonus (twitching) and myalgia (muscle pain). Diagnostic procedures that may reveal muscular disorders include testing creatine kinase levels in the blood and electro ...

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Muscle - Efferent leg. Vertebrates move muscles in response to voluntary and autonomic signals from the brain. Deep muscles, superficial muscles, muscles of the face and internal muscles all correspond with dedicated regions in the brain. In addition, muscles react to reflexive nerve stimuli that do not always send signals all the way to the brain, but most muscle activity is the result of complex intera ...

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Muscle is a contractile form of tissue. It is one of the four major tissue types, the other three being epithelium, connective tissue and nervous tissue. Muscle contraction is used to move parts of the body, as well as to move substances within the body. Muscle - Types. There are three general types of muscle: Cardiac muscle is a specialized kind of muscle found only within the heart. It cannot get tired and is "involuntary". Skeletal muscle or "voluntary muscle" is anchored by tendons ...

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Muscle - Types Muscle - Anatomy Muscle - Physiology Muscle - Nervous control
Muscle - Efferent leg Muscle - Afferent leg
Muscle - Role in health and disease
Muscle - Exercise Muscle - Disease
Muscle - The strongest human muscle Muscle - Efficiency Muscle - Muscle evolution

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The Energetic Patterns Of Dis-Ease

Disease, when looked at clairvoyantly, takes on very specific shapes and sizes in the muscles, glands and organs of the physical and energetic body. Although diseases can be classified as being similar or under the same "umbrella," they carry very distinct energetic patterns that are instantly discernible to a keen observer.

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In the anatomy of mammals, the urinary bladder is the organ that collects urine excreted by the kidneys prior to disposal by urination. Urine enters the bladder via the ureters and exits via the urethra. Urinary bladder - Anatomy. The urinary bladder is a hollow, muscular and distensible organ that sits on the pelvic floor (superior to the prostate in males). On its anterior border lies the pubic symphysis and, on its posterior border, the vagina (in females) and rectum (in males). The urinary bladd ...

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Urinary bladder - Anatomy Urinary bladder - Detrusor muscle Urinary bladder - Diseases of the bladder

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Cardiology is the branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the heart and blood vessels. The field is commonly divided in the branches of coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and electrophysiology. Physicians specializing in this field of medicine are called cardiologists. Cardiology - Anatomy & physiology. Cardiology - Basic anatomy Structure of the heart. Epicardium Pericardium Myocardi ...

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Cardiology - Anatomy & physiology
Cardiology - Basic anatomy Structure of the heart Cardiology - Circulatory system Blood supply of the body Cardiology - Pulmonary circulation Oxygenation of the blood Cardiology - Cardiac pacemaker Electrical system of the heart Cardiology - Basic cardiac physiology
Cardiology - Disorders of the coronary circulation Cardiology - Disorders of the myocardium muscle of the heart Cardiology - Disorders of the pericardium outer lining of the heart Cardiology - Disorders of the heart valves Cardiology - Disorders of the electrical system of the heart Cardiac electrophysiology Cardiology - Inflammation and infection of the heart Cardiology - Congenital heart disease Cardiology - Diseases of blood vessels Vascular diseases Cardiology - Procedures done for coronary artery disease Cardiology - Devices used in cardiology Cardiology - Diagnostic tests and procedures Cardiology - Cardiac pharmaceutical agents

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Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD) and atherosclerotic heart disease, is the end result of the accumulation of atheromatous plaques within the walls of the arteries that supply the myocardium (the muscle of the heart). While the symptoms and signs of coronary heart disease are noted in the advanced state of disease, most individuals with coronary heart disease show no evidence of disease for decades as the disease progresses before the first onset of symptoms, often a "sudden" heart attack, ...

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Coronary heart disease - Overview Coronary heart disease - Pathophysiology Coronary heart disease - Angina Coronary heart disease - Prevention
Coronary heart disease - Preventive Diets
Coronary heart disease - Recent research

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Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that naturally occurs in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle cells. Creatine - History of creatine. In 1832, the French scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul discovered a component of skeletal muscle that he later named creatine after the Greek word for flesh, Kreas. In 1912, researchers found that ingesting creatine can dramatically boost the creatine content of the muscle. In the late 1920s, scientists found that the intramuscular stores of cre ...

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Creatine - History of creatine Creatine - Synthesis Creatine - Function Creatine - Sources Creatine - Loading and consumption Creatine - Creatine and the treatment of muscular diseases

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease) is a progressive, invariably fatal motor neurone disease. In ALS, both the upper motor neurons and the lower motor neurons degenerate or die, ceasing to send messages to muscles. Unable to function, the muscles gradually weaken, waste away (atrophy), and twitch (fasciculations). Eventually, the ability of the brain to start and control voluntary movement is lost. ALS causes weakness with a wide range of disabilities. Eventually, all muscles ...

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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Epidemiology Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Symptoms Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Diagnosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Cause Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Treatment Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Famous People Who Have or Had ALS

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The urinary bladder is a hollow, muscular and distensible organ that sits on the pelvic floor (superior to the prostate in males). On its anterior border lies the pubic symphysis and, on its posterior border, the vagina (in females) and rectum (in males). The urinary bladder is normally capable of storing 1.1-1.3 liters of urine, but because it is made up of transitional epithelium it is able to ...

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Arthroplasty (literally "change of a joint") is a class of orthopaedic surgical procedure aimed at replacing a diseased or painful joint surface with something better. Originally this often meant interpositional arthroplasty with interposition of some other tissue like skin, muscle or tendon to keep inflamed surfaces apart or excisional arthroplasty in which the joint surface and bone ...

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Chorea (also known as St. Vitus dance) is an abnormal voluntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias, which are caused by overactivity of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the areas of the brain that control movement. Chorea is characterized by brief, irregular contractions that are not repetitive or rhythmic, but appear to flow from one muscle to the next. Chorea often occurs with athetosis, which adds twisting and writhing movements. Chorea is a primary feature of Huntington's disease, a prog ...

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Chorea disease - Treatment

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Cachexia is loss of weight, muscle wasting, fatigue, weakness and anorexia (not anorexia nervosa) in someone who is not actively trying to lose weight. It can be a sign of various underlying disorders; when a patient presents with cachexia, a doctor will generally consider the possibility of cancer, certain infectious diseases (e.g. tuberculosis) and some autoimmune disorders. Cachexia - Mechanism. The exact mechanism in which these diseases cause cachexia is poorly understood, but there is p ...

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A coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) or heart bypass is a surgical procedure performed in patients with coronary artery disease (see atherosclerosis) for the relief of angina and possible improved heart muscle function. Veins or arteries from elsewhere in the patient's body are grafted from the aorta to the coronary arteries, bypassing coronary artery narrowings caused by atherosclerosis and improving the blood supply to the myocardium (heart muscle). Coronary artery bypass surgery - Prognosis. Prognosis f ...

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Coronary artery bypass surgery - Prognosis Coronary artery bypass surgery - Technical description Coronary artery bypass surgery - Conduits used for bypass Coronary artery bypass surgery - History

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Angina pectoris is chest pain due to ischemia (a lack of blood and hence oxygen supply) to the heart muscle, generally due to obstruction or spasm of the coronary arteries (the heart's blood vessels). Coronary artery disease, the main cause of angina, is due to atherosclerosis of the cardiac arteries. The term derives from the Greek ankhon ("strangling") and the Latin pectus ("chest"), and can therefore be translated as "a strangling feeling in the chest". Worsening ("crescendo") angina attacks, sudden-onset angin ...

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Angina - Symptoms Angina - Diagnosis Angina - Pathophysiology Angina - Epidemiology Angina - Treatment Angina - Unstable angina

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In zootomy and dermatology, skin is an organ of the integumentary system composed of a layer of tissues that protect underlying muscles and organs. As the interface with the surroundings, it plays the most important role in protecting against pathogens. Its other main functions are insulation and temperature regulation, sensation and vitamin D and B synthesis. Skin has pigmentation, provided by melanocytes, which absorbs some of the potentially dangerous radiation in sunlight. It also contains DNA repair enzymes which reverse U ...

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Skin - Layers Skin - Types Skin - Functions Skin - Hygiene Skin - Aging and disease

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In medical circles, wasting refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to "waste" away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as "acute malnutrition" because it is believed that episodes of wasting have a short duration, in contrast to stunting, which is regarded as chronic malnutrition. Wasting - Causes. Wasting can be caused by an extremely low energy intake (e.g., caused by famine), nutrient losses due to infection, or a combination of low intake and high loss. Infectio ...

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ICD-10 Chapter G: Diseases of the nervous system - G00-G09 Inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system. (G00) Bacterial meningitis, not elsewhere classified (G01) Meningitis in bacterial diseases classified elsewhere (G02) Meningitis in other infectious and parasitic diseases classified elsewhere (G03) Meningitis due to other and unspecified causes (G04) Encephalitis, myelitis and encephalomyelitis (G040) Acute disseminated encephalitis < ...

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Cardiology - Basic anatomy Structure of the heart. Epicardium Pericardium Myocardium Papillary muscle Endocardium Coronary circulation (Blood supply of the heart) Heart valves Cardiology - Circulatory system Blood supply of the body. Cardiac output Heart rate Vascular resistance Blood vessels Cardiology - Pulmonary circulation Oxygenation of the blood. < ...

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