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Cousins was portrayed by actor Ed Asner in a 1984 television movie, Anatomy of an Illness, which was based on Cousins's 1979 book Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing. Cousins was not pleased with the commercial nature of the movie, nor with Hollywood's sensationalistic exaggerations of his experience.
Pap test. The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear (AE), [1] cervical smear (BE), cervical screening (BE), [2] or smear test (BE)) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix (opening of the uterus or womb) or, more rarely, anus (in both men and ...
Anatomical pathology ( Commonwealth) or anatomic pathology ( U.S.) is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the macroscopic, microscopic, biochemical, immunologic and molecular examination of organs and tissues. Over the 20th century, surgical pathology has evolved tremendously: from historical examination ...
Carcinoma is a malignancy that develops from epithelial cells. [1] Specifically, a carcinoma is a cancer that begins in a tissue that lines the inner or outer surfaces of the body, and that arises from cells originating in the endodermal, mesodermal [2] or ectodermal germ layer during embryogenesis. [3]
The pancreas is an organ that in humans lies in the abdomen, stretching from behind the stomach to the left upper abdomen near the spleen. In adults, it is about 12–15 centimetres (4.7–5.9 in) long, lobulated, and salmon-coloured in appearance. [7] Anatomically, the pancreas is divided into a head, neck, body, and tail.
List of episodes. " I Choose You " is the third episode of the twelfth season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and the show's 248th episode overall. It was written by William Harper and directed by Rob Corn. It aired on the American Broadcasting Company in the United States on October 8, 2015.
In the anatomy of humans and homologous primates, the descending colon is the part of the colon extending from the left colic flexure to the level of the iliac crest (whereupon it transitions into the sigmoid colon ). The function of the descending colon in the digestive system is to store the remains of digested food that will be emptied into ...
Grey's Anatomy. ) An episodic screenshot displaying Torres and Yang sharing a moment of confessions before entering the operating room. " Great Expectations " is the thirteenth episode of Season 3 of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and the show's 49th episode overall. It was written by Eric Buchman and directed by Michael ...