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The word drug comes from the Dutch word droog (meaning "dry"). For centuries, most drugs came from dried plants, hence the name.
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Tobacco depletes the body of vitamins A, C, and E, which can result in any of the following: dry hair, dry skin, dry eyes, poor growth, night blindness, abscesses, insomnia, fatigue, reproductive system problems, sinusitis, pneumonia, frequent respiratory problems, skin disorders, weight loss, rickets, osteomalacia, nervousness, muscle spasms, leg cramps, extremity numbness, bone malformations, decayed teeth, difficulty in walking, irritability, restlessness, profuse sweating, increased uric acid (gout), joint damage, damaged red blood cells, destruction of nerves, infertility, miscarriage, and many types of cancer.
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Each year in the United States, there are approximately six million pregnancies. This means that at any one time, about 4% of women in the United States are pregnant.
Flower part number is a characteristic difference between monocots and eudicots
Hartmann's mountain zebra resting, showing its characteristic essentially unbarred belly
Conjunctivitis, with the characteristic “pinkeye” appearance. A yellow crusty exudate is also common
Leukemia. A blood smear from a patient suffering from leukemia demonstrates the abundance of enlarge
The hand on the right exhibits the orange-tinged skin characteristic of carotenodermia
A graphic depiction of predisposing alleles characteristic of a threshold trait within a population,