the aim of this study was to find any structural differences between the digital pads of forelimbs and hind limbs as well as more careful investigation of the internal and external structures of the toe-pad. in this study, pad morphology and cytology in litoria caerulea is described using sem, tem and light microscopy. at the gross anatomical level, toe-pads in hind limbs were subdivided into m...

background : a cross-sectional study of pattern of injuries in road traffic accidents was conducted over a period of one year involving 179 victims. material and methods: males (143) were more commonly involved than females (36) and majority of the victims (56) were in the age group of 21-30 years. results: rural victims(151) outnumbered the urban (28). one third of the victims were illiterates...

[Purpose] This study investigated the reliability of an automated sphygmomanometer based on an oscillometric method, when used during exercise. [Subjects and Methods] Ten healthy subjects were included. Blood pressure (BP) was measured with an automated sphygmomanometer based on a cuff-oscillometric method. The experiment consisted of five tests: sitting posture at rest, walking with swinging t...

SECTION 1 A previously healthy 16-year-old girl developed numbness and tingling in the lower extremities that progressed over a 10-week period to the upper limbs. Two weeks prior to admission, she also developed weakness in her arms and legs, to the point of needing help getting dressed and support for walking. She denied sphincter or systemic symptoms. During the previous year, she had complai...

OBJECTIVE To describe the patterns of formation, level of beginning, variations of course, and relation of the median nerve within the arm of human cadavers. METHODS Sixty upper limbs of 20 male and 10 female adult human cadavers were used in this study. The cadavers were obtained from the Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the study ...