Contact Temperature Sensor Types â These types of temperature sensor are required to be in physical contact with the object being sensed and use conduction to monitor changes in temperature. They can be used to detect solids, liquids or gases over a wide range of temperatures.
Mad cow disease is an incurable, fatal brain disease that affects cattle. Different versions of the disease can affect certain other animals, like goats and sheep. The medical name for mad cow disease is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (pronounced: BO-vine SPUN-jih-form en-seh-fah-LA-puh-thee), or BSE for short. It's called mad cow disease because it affects a cow's nervous system, causing a cow to act strangely and lose control of its ability to do normal things, such as walk.
Diseases that are incurable in 2015. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HOUSTON, Texas - As much as we're amazed by the advances of medicine, in 2015 many diseases remain incurable or are often fatal. We definitely have a long way to go in curing disease and preventing disease as well said Luis Ostrosky, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at UTHealth School of Medicine.