1. After driving from sea level to a trail head in the high Cordilleras, you get out of your car and feel dizzy. What do you suppose is causing your dizziness? How is this beneficial and how is this detrimental? What may eventually happen that would counteract the cause of the dizziness?
1. After driving from sea level to a trail head in the high Cordilleras, you get out of your car and feel dizzy. What do you suppose is causing your dizziness? How is this beneficial and how is this detrimental? What may eventually happen that would counteract the cause of the dizziness?
2. Two men are diagnosed with diabetes insipidus. One didn’t have the disorder until he suffered a stroke. The other had a withstood the condition all his life, and it had never responded to exogenous ADH despite the presence of normal ADH receptors. What might be the cause of the diabetes insipidus in the two men?
3. Which surgery do you think would have the most profound effect on digestion: (a) removal of the stomach (gastrectomy); (b) removal of the pancreas (pancreatectomy); or (c) removal of the gallbladder (cholecystectomy)? Explain your reasoning.
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