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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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In most cases, kidneys can recover from almost complete loss of function, such as in acute kidney (renal) failure.
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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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Only 12 hours after an egg cell is fertilized by a sperm cell, the egg cell starts to divide. As it continues to divide, it moves along the fallopian tube toward the uterus at about 1 inch per day.
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Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in the world. Most children who develop asthma have symptoms before they are 5 years old.