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GI conditions that will keep you out of the U.S. armed services include ulcers, varices, fistulas, esophagitis, gastritis, congenital abnormalities, inflammatory bowel disease, enteritis, colitis, proctitis, duodenal diverticula, malabsorption syndromes, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cysts, abscesses, pancreatitis, polyps, certain hemorrhoids, splenomegaly, hernias, recent abdominal surgery, GI bypass or stomach stapling, and artificial GI openings.
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Patients should never assume they are being given the appropriate drugs. They should make sure they know which drugs are being prescribed, and always double-check that the drugs received match the prescription.
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Prostaglandins were first isolated from human semen in Sweden in the 1930s. They were so named because the researcher thought that they came from the prostate gland. In fact, prostaglandins exist and are synthesized in almost every cell of the body.
Three types of muscle tissue: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle.
(A) Lymphatic vessel with valves within tissue cells; (B) photomicrograph of lymphatic vessel with v
A sod house in North Dakota, 1896. Individual “bricks” of sod were hewn from the ground and stacked
The blood cells are shown in (a)–(f) and the tissue white blood cells are shown in (g), (h), and ...
The Circulatory and Lymphatic Systems Blood and lymph are fluids that circulate throughout the body
The relationship between the number of stem cell divisions in the lifetime of a given tissue and the