A 10-year old girl was rescued from a school swimming pool, where she was found unconscious, and transported to a nearby hospital, where her lungs were discovered to be dry. What would cause dry lungs in this near drowning?

Referencing the photomicrograph below (Plate 20.6), H&E-stained sections of a urinary bladder, answer the following questions about the urinary tract and the bladder: SM in the pictures represents smooth muscle.  U represents the Ureter coming into the bladder.  What is the significance of the smooth muscle lining the ureter?  How does this smooth muscle function? In the two lower pictures, EP represents transitional epithelium lining the surface of the bladder.  How does this layer of cells change/vary as the bladder functions? How does the bladder know, or what stimulates it to release urine to the Urethra?

Referencing the photo and photomicrograph below (Folder 21.4), the woman in the picture shows typical signs of Hyperthyroidism, where excessive amounts of thyroid hormones are released into the circulation. What are the four major categories of endocrine disease abnormalities? What are the signs of hyperthyroidism in this patient as described by the author? What thyroid cells are responsible for production of the thyroid hormones T4 and T3? What cells of the thyroid synthesis Calcitonin?  What is the functional role of Calcitonin?Give a complete and comprehensive answer to receive full credit.

Referencing the photomicrograph below (Plate 21.2 figures 2 and 3), stained sections of a human Pituitary Gland, stained with Mallory, H&E and PAS, answer the following questions about the Pituitary Gland: The top Mallory-stained section of Pituitary Gland is a section depicting “Pars distalis” of the Pituitary Gland.  Where is the Pars distalis structurally located in the Pituitary Gland? Name the two lobes of the Pituitary Gland and include which structures are located in each lobe? Why are the Pituitary Gland and the Hypothalamus known as the “Master Organs” of the endocrine system? In the bottom left and right picture, HB represents “Herring bodies”.  What are Herring bodies?  Do they have any significance?

What letter of the alphabet is formed when a contour line crosses a stream?

The quantities of earth removed from hills and filled into depressions, low spots, and valleys is called?

Give the azimuth of a line having the bearing N10° 5’W

A point established every 100 ft in a linear study is called?

The amount of slope in a road is called?

The line that represents 0º longitude is called: