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A blood chit (Chinese: 血幅; pinyin: xuè fú) is a notice carried by military personnel and addressed to any civilians who may come across an armed-services member – such as a shot-down pilot – in difficulties. As well as identifying the force to which the bearer belongs as friendly, the notice displays a message requesting that the ...
The lacrimal apparatus is the physiological system containing the orbital structures for tear production and drainage. [1]It consists of: The lacrimal gland, which secretes the tears, and its excretory ducts, which convey the fluid to the surface of the eye; it is a j-shaped serous gland located in lacrimal fossa.
The human hepatic portal system delivers about three-fourths of the blood going to the liver.The final common pathway for transport of venous blood from spleen, pancreas, gallbladder and the abdominal portion of the gastrointestinal tract [2] (with the exception of the inferior part of the anal canal and sigmoid colon) is through the hepatic portal vein.
Phlebotomy is the process of making a puncture in a vein, usually in the arm, with a cannula for the purpose of drawing blood. [1] The procedure itself is known as a venipuncture, which is also used for intravenous therapy.
Chit may refer to: Chit (board wargames), a type of wargame counter; Chit (name) Chit, a voucher or certificate with monetary value; Blood chit, document requesting safe passage and assistance for military personnel stranded in enemy territory; Chit fund, a savings scheme practiced in India; Chitting, a method of preparing potatoes for planting
Galen believed that the arterial blood was created by venous blood passing from the left ventricle to the right by passing through 'pores' in the interventricular septum, air passed from the lungs via the pulmonary artery to the left side of the heart.
He was "the first to propose that tissue is a central element in human anatomy, and he considered organs as collections of often disparate tissues, rather than as entities in themselves". [7] Although he worked without a microscope , Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed, [ 8 ...
Ppt: precipitate precipitating PPTCT: prevention of parent-to-child transmission (of HIV) (government of India initiative) PPTL: postpartum tubal ligation: PPTP: Pediatric preclinical testing program PPV: positive predictive value positive pressure ventilation PPx: prophylaxis PR: prothrombin ratio p.r. per rectum (as noun: rectal examination) PRA