16 résultats pour "tumor"

• Cáncer (medicina) - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  Tumores del aparato reproductor femeninoEl aparato reproductor femenino puede verse afectado por diversas formas tumorales, algunas de ellas de desarrollo maligno. Enparticular, el tumor del cuello uterino representa la primera causa de muerte por tumor en las mujeres, después del cáncer de mama.Los fibromas y tumores de los ovarios suelen tener un pronóstico más favorable. Lo que resulta de fundamental importancia en eltratamiento de estas patologías es la precocidad del diagnóstico y, por tant...

• Cáncer (medicina) - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  Tumores del aparato reproductor femeninoEl aparato reproductor femenino puede verse afectado por diversas formas tumorales, algunas de ellas de desarrollo maligno. Enparticular, el tumor del cuello uterino representa la primera causa de muerte por tumor en las mujeres, después del cáncer de mama.Los fibromas y tumores de los ovarios suelen tener un pronóstico más favorable. Lo que resulta de fundamental importancia en eltratamiento de estas patologías es la precocidad del diagnóstico y, por tant...

• Cancer (medicine).

  unable to repair the DNA damage, p53 instructs the cell to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis , putting a stop to runaway cell division before it starts. Programmed cell death is a normal part of cell life and is tightly controlled by many genes, primarily p53. In a cancerous cell, one or more mutations prevent these genes from doing their jobs. When mutated, p53 allows a cell to continue to divide, even with damaged DNA.This can lead to additional mutations in proto-oncogenes or tumor...

• Síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA) - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  se multiplica a una gran velocidad, sufriendo diversas mutaciones genéticas. Al principio, se produce un descenso de la cifra de linfocitos T CD4 pero, al poco tiempo, lascifras normales se recuperan en respuesta a una activación del sistema inmunológico. Durante esta etapa los individuos son altamente contagiosos. El paciente entra entonces en un periodo libre de síntomas (fase asintomática) cuya duración puede ser superior a diez años. Durante ésta, el virus continúa replicándosecausando una d...

• Bone (anatomy).

  Infections of bones called osteomyelitis usually are caused by bacteria, especially Staphylococcus , which enters the body through open wounds and may destroy bone tissues. Tumors, or abnormal growths, occur in bone tissue, though most are benign. Cancerous tumors can be caused by excessive radiation; many radioactivesubstances have an affinity for bone, particularly the marrow, and are readily stored there. Most cancerous tumors in bones, however, are tumors that spread fromcancer in other par...

• Surgery.

  III SURGICAL PROCEDURES Surgical procedures are classified as optional, required, elective, urgent, and emergent based on the patient’s medical condition. Optional surgery consists of operationsthat are not required but which the patient chooses to undergo as with some types of cosmetic surgery. Required surgery is performed when only surgery will correct aproblem—such as cataracts—but the surgery can be delayed for a period of weeks or months. Elective surgical procedures usually involve cond...

• Nervous System.

  of paralysis and other neurologic complications. Some diseases exhibit peculiar geographic and age distribution. In temperate zones, multiple sclerosis is a commondegenerative disease of the nervous system, but it is rare in the Tropics. The nervous system is subject to infection by a great variety of bacteria, parasites, and viruses. For example, meningitis, or infection of the meninges investing thebrain and spinal cord, can be caused by many different agents. On the other hand, one specific v...

• La respiración y los pulmones - (exposé gratuit en espagnol).

  que cuidemos nuestros pulmones y los tratemos bien. Existen algunas enfermedades que pueden afectar a tus pulmones. Cuando se toma aire para respirar, los microorganismos puedenentrar en los pulmones. Algunos de estos microorganismos, como ciertos virus y bacterias, producen enfermedades como latuberculosis y la neumonía ; estas enfermedades no son muy frecuentes y suelen afectar a personas mayores haciendo que su respiración sea difícil. Algunos niños pueden padecer una enfermedad pulmonar qu...

• Helium - chemistry.

  the bends. This synthetic atmosphere is also used in medicine to relieve sufferers of respiratory difficulties because helium moves more easily than nitrogen throughconstricted respiratory passages. In surgery, beams of ionized helium from synchrocyclotron sources are proving useful in treating eye tumors, by stabilizing or evenshrinking the tumors. Such beams are also used to shrink blood-vessel malformations in the brains of patients. Helium is used in inert-gas arc welding for light metals, s...

• Endocrine System.

  thermostat. When the heat in a house falls, the thermostat responds by switching the furnace on, and when the temperature is too warm, the thermostat switches thefurnace off. Usually, the change that a hormone produces also serves to regulate that hormone's secretion. For example, parathyroid hormone causes the body toincrease the level of calcium in the blood. As calcium levels rise, the secretion of parathyroid hormone then decreases. This feedback mechanism allows for tight controlover hormon...

• Medical Ethics.

  medical profession. In recent years, however, the field of medical ethics has struggled to keep pace with the many complex issues raised by new technologies for creating and sustaininglife. Artificial-respiration devices, kidney dialysis, and other machines can keep patients alive who previously would have succumbed to their illnesses or injuries.Advances in organ transplantation have brought new hope to those afflicted with diseased organs. New techniques have enabled prospective parents to con...

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• Oído - ciencias de la naturaleza.

  Las ondas sonoras, en realidad cambios en la presión del aire, son transmitidas a través del canal auditivo externo hacia el tímpano, en el cual se produce una vibración.Estas vibraciones se comunican al oído medio mediante la cadena de huesecillos (martillo, yunque y estribo) y, a través de la ventana oval, hasta el líquido del oído interno.El movimiento de la endolinfa que se produce al vibrar la cóclea, estimula el movimiento de un grupo de proyecciones finas, similares a cabellos, denominada...

• Stem Cell.

  The medical profession used adult stem cells to treat diseases long before anyone isolated one. In 1968 scientists performed the first successful bone marrowtransplant, a procedure in which a patient receives an infusion of healthy bone marrow cells. The purpose of such transplants is to restore the blood-making capabilitiesof the patient’s diseased bone marrow after extremely strong chemotherapy has destroyed that bone marrow. From the beginning investigators suspected that stemcells in the inf...

• Eye. I INTRODUCTION Eye, light-sensitive organ of vision in animals. The eyes of

  Several structures, not parts of the eyeball, contribute to the protection of the eye. The most important of these are the eyelids, two folds of skin and tissue, upper andlower, that can be closed by means of muscles to form a protective covering over the eyeball against excessive light and mechanical injury. The eyelashes, a fringe ofshort hairs growing on the edge of either eyelid, act as a screen to keep dust particles and insects out of the eyes when the eyelids are partly closed. Inside the...

• Virus (life science) - biology.

  RNA into DNA earned them their name because this process is the reverse of the usual transfer of genetic information, from DNA to RNA.) The DNA form of theretrovirus genome is then integrated into the cellular DNA and is referred to as the provirus. The viral genome is replicated every time the host cell replicates its DNA and is thus passed on to daughter cells. Hepatitis B virus can also transcribe RNA to DNA, but this virus packages the DNA version of its genome into virus particles. Unlike...