Your pulse is the vibration of blood as your heart pumps it through your arteries. You can feel your pulse by placing your fingers over a large artery that lies close to your skin. The apical pulse is ...

The apical pulse is a pulse site on the left side of the chest over the pointed end, or apex, of the heart. It can indicate potential issues with a person’s heart health. The pulse, or heart rate, is ...

Axis formation occurs in plants, as in animals, during early embryogenesis. However, the underlying mechanism is not known. Here we show that the first manifestation of the apical–basal axis in plants ...

—Dr. Wang spoke to MedPage Today to discuss the diagnosis of apical HCM, and distinct features of this disease subtype. Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a morphological subtype of HCM that ...

Throughout the body, polarized epithelial cells are organized into sheets that line the surfaces and cavities of organs (for example, in the respiratory, urinary and digestive systems) to perform ...