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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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There are more nerve cells in one human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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A strange skin disease referred to as Morgellons has occurred in the southern United States and in California. Symptoms include slowly healing sores, joint pain, persistent fatigue, and a sensation of things crawling through the skin. Another symptom is strange-looking, threadlike extrusions coming out of the skin.
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Hyperthyroidism leads to an increased rate of metabolism and affects about 1% of women but only 0.1% of men. For most people, this increased metabolic rate causes the thyroid gland to become enlarged (known as a goiter).
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The use of salicylates dates back 2,500 years to Hippocrates’s recommendation of willow bark (from which a salicylate is derived) as an aid to the pains of childbirth. However, overdosage of salicylates can harm body fluids, electrolytes, the CNS, the GI tract, the ears, the lungs, the blood, the liver, and the kidneys and cause coma or death.
Risk Factors for Diabetes
Example of CPT conventions in the Index.
Factors Affecting the Affinity of Hb for O2
Body Mass Index (IBM)
Expansion factors for venturi flowmeters
The Heat Index.