6. HUMAN HEALTH Flashcards
(26 cards)
Total no of bones in child
300
No of bones in skull
8
Pairs of Ribs in man
12
Strongest bone is found in?
Femur (Thigh bone)
Smallest bone of Human body
Stapes
Which vitamin functions as both hormone and visual pigment
Vitamin A (Retinal)
Bacterial Diseases
• Dysentery
• Plague
• Diphtheria
• Cholera
• Typhoid
• Poeumonia
Viral Diseases
• Common cold
• Mumps
• Measles
• Viral hepatitis
• Dengue fever
• Chikungunya
• Chicken pox
• Poliomyelitis
Fungal diseases
Candidiasis
Athlete’s foot
Protzoan diseases
• Malaria
• Amoebiasis
• African sleeping sickness
• Kala-azar
Helminthic diseases
Ascariasis
Filariasis
ORS composition
Sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, pott chloride, glucose, sucrose and water
Kaashiorkor is caused by deficiency of?
Protien
Causitive agent of peptic ulcer is?
Helicobater pylori
Sleeping sickness is caused by?
Parasite - Trypanosoma brucei
Energy in our body is stores in the form of?
Enzyme in saliva
Amylase… helps in breaking down food
What happens to food in stomach
Mixed with HCL and pepsin
Pepsin digest’s protien partially
Complete digestion of food is done in?
Small intestine
Which of the following organism does not obey the ‘cell theory’?
Virus
The fact that new cells arise from pre-existing cells was proposed by
R Virchow
Function of amylase
Beaks down starch and carbohydrates into sugars
Function of pepsin
Breaking down of protien into peptide and amino acids
function of lipase
digestion of lipids
