organization of the human body

Health is considered to be the state of perfect functioning of body and mind, unhindered by diseases. Disease is the malfunctioning of the organism or part of it due to infection, inherent weakness or environmental stress, that upsets the normal physiological functioning o..

Organ Transplantation - Organ transplantation has become a therapeutic modality to treat patients with end - stage disease. While many types of organs have been successfully transplanted, the histocompatibility barrier between recipient and donor remains a problem. It ..

Introduction - Health is considered to be the state of perfect functioning of body and mind, unhindered by diseases. Disease is the malfunctioning of the organism or part of it due to infection, inherent weakness or environmental stress, that upsets the normal physiological func..

Nervous Control in Human Beings - Nervous System - The nervous system carries out the following functions: It perceives the changes around us through our senses. It controls and coordinates all the activities of the muscles in response to the changes outside. It also maintains the interna..

The closed circulatory system can be represented as follows. Diagram showing inter-relationship between artery, vein and capillary The closed blood vascular system is a very well developed system This is so because, a) The organisms have a thick body wall to prevent the evaporat..

There are a pair of lungs in the thoracic cavity - the left lung and the right lung. The left lung is slightly smaller (because of the heart which is slightly to the left of the body) and has two lobes and the right lung is bigger with three lobes. They are spongy and elastic o..

Introduction - Living organisms are exposed to various external or foreign substances and disease causing organisms like bacteria, viruses and fungi. Such organisms which can cause a disease are known as Pathogens . It is observed that some human beings are m..

There are some structures in the body of organisms, which have no apparent use. Such structures are described as 'vestigial'. Vestigial organs indicate that they must have been present in a form in which they were highly functional in the ancestral forms. The hum..

All living organisms are composed of structural and functional units called cells. The body of a living organism may be composed of a single cell - as in unicellular organisms or many cells - as in multicellular organisms. The number of cells in th..