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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People often find it difficult to accept the idea that bacteria can be beneficial and improve health. Lactic acid bacteria are good, and when eaten, these bacteria improve health and increase longevity. These bacteria included in foods such as yogurt.
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Alcohol acts as a diuretic. Eight ounces of water is needed to metabolize just 1 ounce of alcohol.
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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.
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Eating food that has been cooked with poppy seeds may cause you to fail a drug screening test, because the seeds contain enough opiate alkaloids to register as a positive.
Fluid compartments in a typical vertebrate.
Typical EKG tracing.
A typical malfunction indicator lamp (MIL) often labeled “check engine.”
A typical IAC.
. In which distribution is the mean more “typical” of all scores?
Carnivorous plants of the genus Nepenthes grow in nitrogen-poor soil