Owner’s Manual: Your Gall Bladder – A Primer
Your Gall Bladder Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped organ found just under the liver on your right side. It stores and concentrates bile, a fluid made...
View ArticleOwner’s manual: Your Pancreas
— A Primer Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife Your pancreas, a leaf-shaped gland about six inches long, is nestled behind the lower part of your stomach. It has two functions: to secrete...
View ArticleOwner’s manual: Your Spleen
A Primer Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife A soft, spongy purple organ about the size of your fist, the spleen sits just under your rib cage on your left side. It’s about 4 inches long and is...
View ArticleOwner’s Manual: Your liver—a primer
Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife Your liver, an organ about the size of a football that’s flat on one side, sits under your rib cage on your right side. The largest organ in your abdomen (it...
View ArticleOwner’s Manual: Your kidneys — a primer
Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife Most of us have two kidneys, each about the size of a fist and shaped like a bean. They’re found to the left and right of the backbone, at the lowest level of...
View ArticleOwner’s manual: Your uterus — a primer
Compiled By Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife The uterus, or womb, is hollow and pear-shaped and is one of the few organs that makes us uniquely female. Its main purpose is to protect and nourish a...
View ArticleOwner’s Manual: Your Lungs — a primer
Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz Our two lungs take up most of the space in our chest and together make up one of the largest organs of the body. Part of the respiratory system, they are protected by our...
View ArticleOwner’s Manual: Your appendix—a primer
Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife Your appendix is a narrow, finger-like pouch of tissue found near the junction of the small and large intestines and extending into the lower right side of...
View ArticleOwner’s Manual: Your Bladder—a primer
Compiled by Linda Tuccio-Koonz/HealthyLife You don’t think much about your bladder until it’s full — then it’s hard to think about anything else! Part of our urinary tract, the bladder is an...
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