Sentences with phrase «small organ»

Well, they're two small organs in your body that sit on top of each kidney.

Small organs called lymph nodes are found throughout the body and help to filter out harmful particles and cells.

Although the kidneys are small organs by weight, they receive a huge amount - about 20 % - of the blood pumped by the heart.

Our adrenal glands — small organs located above the kidneys — usually deal with stress by producing hormones like cortisol.

There was a young law student named Rex, Who had very small organs of sex.

19 Accurately weighing small organs like the thyroid and adrenals requires a triple - beam balance; all other organs are plopped down on an ordinary grocer's scale.

Perhaps the mice can regenerate small organs, such as immature toes, but not larger ones, such as full - size digits or the heart, but the jury is still out.

Post-biblical Hebrew uses the clinical term ebar (organ / limb) or ebar qatan (small organ / limb) but no such term exists in biblical Hebrew.

The gizzard is a small organ found in the lower stomach of a chicken, and your butcher should be able to get one for you.

The placenta is a small organ that attaches to the wall of your uterus and develops during your pregnancy.

Your uterus is a small organ in your lower abdomen near your bladder.

The appendix is a small organ that opens into the large intestine.

For such a small organ, the eye is extremely complex.

A potential therapy for Parkinson's disease may lie in an unusual location: the carotid body, a small organ in the neck.

Mice with mutations in what is called the nude gene don't fully develop the thymus, a small organ in the chest cavity that plays a key role in the maturation of infection - fighting T cells.

The second discovery involved TSH, which is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland, a small organ at the base of the brain.

Problems arise, however, when low - birth - weight babies are fed diets rich in sugars or fat, which stress their smaller organs, such as pancreases, for example, leading to diabetes — or when fast - growing children face famine.

In a study published in Science in January 2004, they found that suppressing recollection reduced the activity of the hippocampus, the small organ that shuttles short - term memories into long - term storage.

In both mice and people, T cells are «trained» by specialized cells in the thymus, a small organ in front of the heart, to recognize the body's own cells and refrain from attacking them.

Gallstones are hard particles that develop in the gallbladder — a small organ that stores the bile fluids that help the body digest fat and fat - soluble vitamins.

The thymus is the small organ in the lymphatic system that makes T - cells, [29] which are highly specialized immune cells that target specific types and strains of microbes, like viruses.

GH is made by the pituitary gland, a small organ at the base of the brain.

ACTH journeys — via the bloodstream — to your adrenal cortex, where these small organs will pump out as many as 30 different hormones to address the stressful situation at hand (the adrenals are «fed» by cholesterol).

The kidneys are two small organs that are shaped like beans and are located just below the rib cage.

The adrenal gland is a small organ that sits on top of your kidney.

Restoring Thymic Function for Immune Support and Life Extension By Ward Dean, MD and Jim English The key to a healthy, functioning immune system rests largely with the thymus gland, a small organ lying just beneath the breast - bone (Fig. 1).

Their sense of smell is about 200 times stronger than the human nose, and they also have the ability to sense pheromones with a small organ on the roof of their mouth.

Insulin is manufactured in the pancreas, a small organ near the bottom of the stomach and the small intestine.

A: The thyroid gland is a small organ of the endocrine system (the organ system responsible for producing hormones to be released into the bloodstream).

The pancreas is a small organ that is tan or pink.