Jigai

 

 In Japan, the jigai  ritual is a traditional method of female suicide, carried out by cutting the jugular vein using a knife called a tantō. 

The jigai ritual is the feminine counterpart of seppuku (well-known as harakiri), the ritual suicide of samurai warriors, which was carried out by a deep slash into the abdomen.

 In contrast to seppuku, jigai can be performed without assistance, which was fundamental for seppuku.

Japanese Encephalitis

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When You Fail To Fool People You Get Fooled 

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Drooping Lilly Sign

 

                                                                 Drooping Lilly Sign 

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Human Menopausal Gonadortopin

                                                                    Fertility Injections 

                                           Human Menopausal Gonadotropins 

                  Extracted From Urine Of Post Menopausal Women 

Human Menopausal Gonadotropin

Stimulate Egg Production

Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome

Complication Of Treatment With Fertility Drugs 

Human Menopausal Gonadotropin Is Associated With It 

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Lividity

                                                                       Lividity

                                             Purple Red Discoloration After Death

Visualizing Lividity

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Starling Forces

 

                                                                      Ernest Starling 

                                                                         Starling Forces

                                 Forces That Control Movement Of Fluid In/Out Of A Capillary

Starling Forces = Glomerular Filtration Rate 

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Glucagon And Fasting

 

Glucagon is a peptide hormone that is produced primarily by the alpha cells in the islet of Langerhans in the pancreas, but also in the stomach, intestinal enteroendocrine cells, and some neurons. 

Kimball and Murlin identified this substance in the pancreas extracts and named it ‘glucagon’, derived through the words ‘glucose agonist’ (Kimball & Murlin 1923, Muller et al. 2017). 

Eli Lilly is credited with the isolation of pure glucagon and the determination of its amino acid sequence (Kimball & Murlin 1923, Staub et al. 1953 Bromer et al. 1957, Muller et al. 2017).

                                                Physiology Of Glucagon

                               

                                              Evolution Of Glucagon

Secretion Of Glucagon

Glucagon In Fasting/Starvation

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