Muscular dystrophy is a muscle disease that causes a loss in muscle mass and weakness. Patients with muscular dsytrophy may experience a weakening in their cardiac muscles, causings heart malfunction. Muscular dystrophy can also deteriorate the diaphragm, a muscle that solely aids in respiration, causing a breathing malfunction.
<span>The Leeward side of a mountain range is in fact in a rain shadow. A rain shadow is an area of elevation where little to no rain falls, due to precipitation being forced out of passing clouds on the windward side of the mountain. Precipitation condenses as clouds rise over the mountain, and in general it precipitates as it crests over the mountain, leaving no moisture for the leeward side. An example of this is the American west, just west of the Rockies, where little to no rain falls.</span>
The olfactory system is involved in the sense of smell. The receptors of smell are not routed through the thalamus. The signals id directly routed from the olfactory bulb to the olfactory cortex and thalamus is not contacted in between. This is the difference between the taste and smell receptors, although both of their receptors are stimulated from mucus/saliva in the mouth.
