Our body is extremely complex and is made up of many systems which are interconnected to each other. Blood, also often referred to as ‘liquid life’, is what connects the whole body together. Blood carries materials from one organ to another for ...
Pathology, simply put, is the study of diseases. It deals with all aspects of a disease or condition, focusing particularly on the nature, cause, and development of certain abnormal conditions. Pathology also focuses on the functional and structural ...
Cytomegalovirus is a member of the herpes family of viruses. This is one of the more benign viruses of the group and is only known to cause disease in severely immunocompromised individuals. The presence of cytomegalovirus in the body subsequent to ...
Chloride is the ionic form of the halogen chlorine. While chlorine gas is a known poison, chloride is an important essential element in the body and is found most abundantly in the body as salt. There can be some imbalances with chloride in the body ...
Chloride is a chemical that is the ionic form of chlorine. This is an essential element for human survival and though chlorine gas is a known toxin for humans, chlorides are essential for life. They play a major role in maintaining the pH levels of ...
The Bence-Jones protein urine test is a test for the protein by the same name. The Bence-Jones protein is a protein that is a globulin that is excreted in the urine. The significance of finding the Bence-Jones protein in urine is that it is an ...
Beta human chorionic gonadotrophin is a subunit of human chorionic gonadotrophin or hCG. This is used as a measure of pregnancy and is one of the early markers of the presence of a fetus in a woman before all other hormones and changes take place. ...
Our blood serves as a carrier for basically every substance that we ingest to our tissues. To facilitate this, the blood needs to be in a certain condition and one of the measures or rather values that are considered would be the pH value. This ...