There Is a High Occurrence of Dental Caries and High

question 42

True/False

There is a high occurrence of dental caries and high amounts of S. mutans present in the plaque of Tanzanian children.

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Definitions:

Left Atrium

The left atrium is one of the four chambers of the heart, receiving oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and pumping it into the left ventricle.

Pulmonary Arteries

Blood vessels that carry deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs for gas exchange.

Diastole

Relaxation period of a heart chamber during the cardiac cycle.

Systole

The phase of the heart cycle during which the heart muscles contract and pump blood from the chambers into the arteries.