Atropine was named after the Greek goddess Atropos, the oldest and ugliest of the three sisters known as the Fates, who controlled the destiny of men.
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There are more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.
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Thyroid conditions may make getting pregnant impossible.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
Doctors in China pray before operating
Creede, Colorado, circa 1890, a rough silver mining town that grew from 660 people in 1889 to over 1
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How prefixes and suffixes can be combined with a word root to form many medical terms.