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Alveolar Ventilation

Flu primarily caused by viruses that normally infect only birds (e.g. H5N1 virus). Transmission…

The axial nerve or circumflex nerve is a nerve that comes off the brachial…

The second cervical vertebra (C2) of the spine; aka epistropheus.

A long slender projection of a nerve cell that conducts electrical impulses away from…

Measures the pressure of oxygen dissolved in the blood and how well the oxygen…

Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart; structural characteristics are designed to…

Thin-walled, small-diameter resistance vessels that are branches of small-diameter arteries; a high proportion of…

Condition in which arteries lose elasticity, becoming hard and narrow; occlusion or blockage can…

A surface where two anatomical structures (usually bones) meet.

The articular processes (zygapophyses) of a vertebra, two superior and two inferior, spring from…

Paired cartilages that articulate with the cricoid cartilage of the larynx. The posterior ends…