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  2. Spirostomum - Wikipedia

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    A single contractile vacuole is positioned at the posterior end of the organism, attached to a collecting canal that extends towards the anterior end. When filled with fluid, the vacuole takes up a substantial portion of the posterior end. The distinction between the contractile vacuole and the rest of the cytoplasm is usually very clear. [6 ...

  3. Vacuole - Wikipedia

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    For example, developing cells in the meristems contain small provacuoles and cells of the vascular cambium have many small vacuoles in the winter and one large one in the summer. Aside from storage, the main role of the central vacuole is to maintain turgor pressure against the cell wall .

  4. Ventilator-associated lung injury - Wikipedia

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    Severe injury to alveoli causes swelling of the tissues (edema) in the lungs, bleeding of the alveoli, loss of surfactant (decrease in lung compliance) and complete alveoli collapse . [ 1 ] [ 8 ] High flow rates are associated with rheotrauma , high volumes with volutrauma and pressures with barotrauma .

  5. Thiomargarita namibiensis - Wikipedia

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    Despite the large size of T. namibiensis, its primary mechanism for nutrient uptake is still through normal diffusion. [35] T. namibiensis can perform normal diffusion due to the reduced amount of cytoplasm as a result of its large vacuoles. [13] These large central vacuoles, which act as reserves, are the source of the large size of T ...

  6. Thrombus - Wikipedia

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    The three factors have been further refined to include circulatory stasis, vascular wall injury, and hypercoagulable state, all of which contribute to increased risk for venous thromboembolism and other cardiovascular diseases. [4] Virchow's triad describes the pathogenesis of thrombus formation: [7] [8]

  7. COVID raises risk of long-term brain injury, large U.S. study ...

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    COVID raises risk of long-term brain injury, large U.S. study finds. Julie Steenhuysen. September 22, 2022 at 12:36 PM.

  8. Abdominal thrusts - Wikipedia

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    The Heimlich Institute has stopped advocating on their website for the Heimlich maneuver to be used as a first aid measure for drowning victims. Heimlich's son, Peter M. Heimlich, alleges that in August 1974 his father published the first of a series of fraudulent case reports in order to promote the use of abdominal thrusts for near-drowning ...

  9. Pulmonary contusion - Wikipedia

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    The severity ranges from mild to severe: small contusions may have little or no impact on health, yet pulmonary contusion is the most common type of potentially lethal chest trauma. It occurs in 30–75% of severe chest injuries. The risk of death following a pulmonary contusion is between 14 and 40%.