Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Reading in the book "Growth and change" about menstruation and puberty (Tanzania) Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) or menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is the access to menstrual hygiene products to absorb or collect the flow of blood during menstruation, privacy to change the materials, and access to facilities to dispose of used menstrual management materials. [1]
Small blood clots—say, dime- or nickel-sized on your heaviest flow days—may appear during menstruation and that’s not uncommon, especially if you feel fine otherwise and you’re not ...
Clockwise from top right: Amoeba proteus, Actinophrys sol, Acanthamoeba sp., Nuclearia thermophila., Euglypha acanthophora, neutrophil ingesting bacteria. An amoeba (/ ə ˈ m iː b ə /; less commonly spelled ameba or amœba; pl.: amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae) / ə ˈ m iː b i /), [1] often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability ...
Vampire amoebae were first discovered in 1865 by Leon Cienkowski. [2] These amoebae were given the genus name Vampyrella due to their bright red colouration and their distinct feeding habits in which they perforate the cell wall of their host and draw out the inner contents of the cell, resembling that of folklore vampires.
An increased white blood cell count may be present in severe cases. [2] The most accurate test is finding specific antibodies in the blood, but it may remain positive following treatment. [2] Bacterial colitis can result in similar symptoms. [2] Prevention of amoebiasis is by improved sanitation, including separating food and water from faeces. [2]
Nucleariida is a group of amoebae [1] with filose pseudopods, known mostly from soils and freshwater.They are distinguished from the superficially similar vampyrellids mainly by having mitochondria with discoid cristae, in the absence of superficial granules, and in the way they consume food.
Similarly to some of the white blood cells of vertebrates, in many species amebocytes are found in the blood or body fluid (e.g. as the blood cells of Limulus, the horseshoe crab) [1] and play a role in the defense of the organism against pathogens. Depending on the species, an amebocyte may also digest and distribute food, dispose of wastes ...
Entamoeba coli is a non-pathogenic species of Entamoeba that frequently exists as a commensal parasite in the human gastrointestinal tract. E. coli (not to be confused with the bacterium Escherichia coli) is important in medicine because it can be confused during microscopic examination of stained stool specimens with the pathogenic Entamoeba histolytica. [1]