When blood is exposed to air, it clots. Heparin allows the blood to come in direct contact with air without clotting.
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Human kidneys will clean about 1 million gallons of blood in an average lifetime.
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The longest a person has survived after a heart transplant is 24 years.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
The pedigree from Part C is shown below.
The RecA strand exchange reaction as shown from single-molecule studies
Which outcome corresponds to the combination of copper(II) and sulfide ions shown in the ...
Incomplete dominance shown in the flower color of snapdragons
Regions of the world where malaria is endemic are shown