Sentences with phrase «like nerve and muscle»

Electrolytes — minerals that dissolve in your body fluids and help conduct electricity — are essential for processes like nerve and muscle functioning.

Not exact matches

But we now see that significant organic changes require that innumerable component developments occur simultaneously and independently in bones, nerves, muscles, arteries and the like.

Tummy time lets your baby's brain and neurons and muscles and nerves and reflexes develop progressively, they way they need to, to support more advanced activities like crawling and walking and running 5Ks and writing legal briefs and doing the Cha Cha Slide.

That's why it's crucial to know which nutrients your child needs (like vitamin A for vision, magnesium for muscles and nerves, and zinc for metabolism).

While you are making adjustments for your changing shape, there are a lot of changes going on inside your womb as your baby, who was just a cluster of cells a couple of months ago, has organs, nerves, muscles and is looking more like a little person.

Your baby's organs, nerves and muscles are all starting to function now and although you won't be able to feel it, their tiny heart is now beating strong enough to be picked up by ultrasound devices like a Doppler, although this isn't always possible depending on the position of your baby in the uterus.

The sea sponge may seem like an odd choice for genomic research considering that its simple body lacks muscles, organs, and nerve cells, but the creature provides a wealth of information on how multicellular organism arose.

«If ctenophores diverged first, these organ systems likely have been present in the common ancestor of all animals — and sponges and placozoans must subsequently have lost them — or complex traits like nerve cells and muscles must have emerged independently several times in different lineages,» Wörheide explains.

Small flies: For this Kandinsky - like image, researchers stained cross sections of 20 fruit fly embryos with antibodies to reveal three distinct tissue types: muscle, nerve and skin.

Make it through the names and you'll learn interesting nuggets, like that the glossopharyngeal nerve oversees swallowing muscles and relays information about taste and touch in the mouth.

But bones tell only a small part of the story, because the body of a vertebrate consists mostly of soft tissues — skin, muscles, nerves, and the like — that decay quickly.

Even if nerve and muscle function could be completely restored in the arm, biological hands are too complex for surgeons like Aszmann to rewire.

«I'm reaching back there,» he says, «and I'm thinking this feels like muscle, this feels like skin, this is a cord that might be a nerve or a blood vessel.»

Like Lou Gehrig's disease, SMA is a neuromuscular illness that attacks nerve cells of the spinal cord and causes skeletal muscles to waste away.

In describing her pain, she says: «My muscles and nerves feel like a bunch of snakes that are all intertwined, but then I also get a stabbing and shooting pain.

Fascia is like Saran Wrap for our guts: It's a fibrous matrix that holds the bones, muscles, organs, and nerves and helps keep our physical shape.

A pinched nerve, also called a pressed or compressed nerve, is exactly what it sounds like: Some of the structures around the nerve, like muscles, tendons, tissue, and bone, pinch the nerve and cause different sensations.

Also, to help with chemotherapy side effects like diarrhea, nerve muscle and joint pain, and to support the immune and digestive systems during such treatment.

Fascia is the thin, cellophane - like, connective tissue that surrounds muscles, groups of muscles, blood vessels, and nerves.

The fired - up immune activity produces inflammatory chemicals that fuel all types of muscle and joint pain; it can also activate nerves in vulnerable spots like the lower back (sciatica), the head (migraines), and the pelvis (endometriosis and pelvic pain).

I heard acupuncture blocks nerves that send pain — like for muscle and joint aches — but does it actually help heal the real problem?

† It helps maintain normal function of the heart, muscles, and nerves by facilitating the transport of ions like potassium and calcium across cell membranes.

You also have more nerve growth, more insulin - like growth factor and nerve growth factor locally at the muscle to help you get larger, healthier, and more bigger muscle cells.

There's a lot of different things that can cause hyperkalemia but the issue with it is that although potassium is really important to maintain the action potential in nerve cells, which means it is also important for muscle contractions for not cramping and stuff like that.

High potassium fruits: Everyone is familiar with bananas but there are other pre workout foods like apples that helps to improve nerve function and muscle control.

It's also packed with minerals, like calcium, manganese and potassium, which is great for muscle, nerve, bones, kidney and pancreas functions.

Beets are high in immune - boosting vitamin C, fiber, and essential minerals like potassium — essential for healthy nerve and muscle function and manganese — good for your bones, liver, kidneys, and pancreas.

For those who suffer from this condition, it can be quite debilitating, with symptoms like fatigue, intense muscle and nerve pain, digestive disturbances and more.

Your nerves, the pathways that link your brain and muscles, learn how to carry information more quickly — much like the speed - dial feature on your telephone.

Calcium plays a role in mediating the constriction and relaxation of blood vessels (vasoconstriction and vasodilation), nerve impulse transmission, muscle contraction, and the secretion of hormones like insulin (1).

These experiments involved deliberate cutting into and infecting of leg bones and muscles with virulent bacteria, cutting nerves, introducing substances like pieces of wood or glass into tissues, and fracturing bones.

The orbit is the bony «socket» that contains the eyeball and associated structures like the lacrimal (tear producing) gland, nerves, blood vessels, and extraocular muscles.

Complex Circuitry The feline nervous system, like yours, is made up of two components: the central nervous system, which consists of the brain and spinal cord; and the peripheral nervous system, which comprises the cranial, spinal, and other nerves, as well as muscles.

I can feel that the muscle density in his shoulder has reduced substantially and I worry that even if the nerves or whatever is wrong do heal up that he may just not feel like he can use his leg again.