Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Engineering : Production and designing of spare part for overcoming various defects in man. In leyman terms creating (developing) a part of human body.
e.g. artificial limbs, Iron lungs, Pacemaker etc.

Biomedical Engineering

What is living?

Q. What is living?

Ans. The word living cannot be defined. However, there are certain characters by which can be distinguished from non living.

For Example:-

» Growth : Increase in the number of cell or mass is called growth

» Reproduction : Living organism produce young ones of their same kind

» Metabolism : Chemical reaction occuring inside a living cell

» Response of stimuli : Living have the ability to sense the condition of their surrounding and respond to these stimuli

Living Cell