About 600,000 particles of skin are shed every hour by each human. If you live to age 70 years, you have shed 105 pounds of dead skin.
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Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
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In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.
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Many medications that are used to treat infertility are injected subcutaneously. This is easy to do using the anterior abdomen as the site of injection but avoiding the area directly around the belly button.
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Human Skin
The cell wall of a Gram-positive bacterium, S. aureus
Skin rash is one of the symptoms of zinc deficiency