The Inhibins A and B Blood Test helps determine the levels of inhibin A and inhibin B in blood. It helps in diagnosing abnormalities in pregnancy, including preeclampsia (which is a dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy) Along with AFP and uE3, inhibin A and inhibin B levels are also measured as a second-trimester screen for Down syndrome
A gill (/É¡Éªl/) is a respiratory organ found in many aquatic organisms that extracts dissolved oxygen from water and excretes carbon dioxide. The gills of some species, such as hermit crabs, have adapted to allow respiration on land provided they are kept moist.
Gills are evaginations of the body surface. Some open directly to the environment; others, as in fishes, are enclosed in a cavity. In contrast, lungs represent invaginations of the body surface. Many invertebrates use gills as a major means of gas exchange; a few, such as the pulmonate land snail, use lungs. Almost any thin-walled extension of the body surface that comes in contact with the environmental medium and across which gas exchange occurs can be viewed as a gill.