life-stuff as occurs
Another for the "I Solemnly Swear to Read Patient Histories" file:
"So, these are just for reading, huh?"
I couldn't help but laugh. That might even top the resident who asked me, in a worried voice, if I wouldn't mind telling her how I had "hurt my eye". Maybe.
lizzypaul, you said you worked at Borders before, right? Did you have to take the weird test before they hired you? I think they asked me about thirty different ways if I considered myself to be a leader, then they kept going on and on about, "like to be with people" and, "prefer to work on a team" and, "aren't bothered by other people's rudeness". I was all, "very much agree!" in the beginning because it seemed like the kind of thing they would want to hear, but toward the end I started to wonder if it was all an elaborate set-up to make me seem like some kind of self-obsessed nutcase.
On a random and unrelated note, my mother has given me Gray's Anatomy! I am very, very happy, and will probably take to quoting from it shortly. In fact, you may have the first two paragraphs now, since they amused me so*:
All the tissues and organs of which the body is composed were originally developed from a microscopic body (the ovum), consisting of a soft gelatinous granular material enclosed in a membrane, and containing a vesicle, or small spherical body, inside which are one or more solid spots. This may be regarded as a perfect cell. Moreover, all the solid tissues can be shown to consist largely of similar bodies or cells, differing, it is true, in external form, but essentially similar to an ovum.
In the higher organisms all such cells may be defined as 'nucleated masses of protoplasm of microscopic size.' The two essentials, therefore, of an animal cell in the higher organisms are: the presence of a soft gelatinous granular material, similar to that found in the ovum, and which is usually styled protoplasm; and a small spherical body embedded in it, and termed a nucleus;* the remaining constituents of the ovum, viz. its limiting membrane and the solid spot contained in the nucleus, called the nucleolus, are not considered essential to the cell, and in fact many cells exist without them.
* In certain lower forms of life, masses of protoplasm without any nuclei have been described by Huxley and others, as cells
There's also this lovely sequence of drawings of cellular reproduction, the description of which makes - of course - no mention of DNA, but which tosses the word chromosome around a rather lot. Hm...Google says it was first used in 1888 by a Wilhelm Waldeyer (Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz), who has since had a ring of lymphatic tissue named after him (yes, really. I have pictures, if you'd like.) and...well, here, I found a page that lists all kinds of stuff about him. He did all sorts of interesting things, it seems - and he was in Greifswald! (I used to live there, and wandered around the university all of the time, so I find that cool.)
Enough anatomy for the evening? Probably.
* Why, yes, I am easily amused. How'd you know?
"So, these are just for reading, huh?"
I couldn't help but laugh. That might even top the resident who asked me, in a worried voice, if I wouldn't mind telling her how I had "hurt my eye". Maybe.
lizzypaul, you said you worked at Borders before, right? Did you have to take the weird test before they hired you? I think they asked me about thirty different ways if I considered myself to be a leader, then they kept going on and on about, "like to be with people" and, "prefer to work on a team" and, "aren't bothered by other people's rudeness". I was all, "very much agree!" in the beginning because it seemed like the kind of thing they would want to hear, but toward the end I started to wonder if it was all an elaborate set-up to make me seem like some kind of self-obsessed nutcase.
On a random and unrelated note, my mother has given me Gray's Anatomy! I am very, very happy, and will probably take to quoting from it shortly. In fact, you may have the first two paragraphs now, since they amused me so*:
All the tissues and organs of which the body is composed were originally developed from a microscopic body (the ovum), consisting of a soft gelatinous granular material enclosed in a membrane, and containing a vesicle, or small spherical body, inside which are one or more solid spots. This may be regarded as a perfect cell. Moreover, all the solid tissues can be shown to consist largely of similar bodies or cells, differing, it is true, in external form, but essentially similar to an ovum.
In the higher organisms all such cells may be defined as 'nucleated masses of protoplasm of microscopic size.' The two essentials, therefore, of an animal cell in the higher organisms are: the presence of a soft gelatinous granular material, similar to that found in the ovum, and which is usually styled protoplasm; and a small spherical body embedded in it, and termed a nucleus;* the remaining constituents of the ovum, viz. its limiting membrane and the solid spot contained in the nucleus, called the nucleolus, are not considered essential to the cell, and in fact many cells exist without them.
* In certain lower forms of life, masses of protoplasm without any nuclei have been described by Huxley and others, as cells
There's also this lovely sequence of drawings of cellular reproduction, the description of which makes - of course - no mention of DNA, but which tosses the word chromosome around a rather lot. Hm...Google says it was first used in 1888 by a Wilhelm Waldeyer (Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz), who has since had a ring of lymphatic tissue named after him (yes, really. I have pictures, if you'd like.) and...well, here, I found a page that lists all kinds of stuff about him. He did all sorts of interesting things, it seems - and he was in Greifswald! (I used to live there, and wandered around the university all of the time, so I find that cool.)
Enough anatomy for the evening? Probably.
* Why, yes, I am easily amused. How'd you know?