As your temperature rises, your body signals the blood vessels to vasoconstrict.

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By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%.

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Vaccines cause herd immunity. If the majority of people in a community have been vaccinated against a disease, an unvaccinated person is less likely to get the disease since others are less likely to become sick from it and spread the disease.

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It is believed that the Incas used anesthesia. Evidence supports the theory that shamans chewed cocoa leaves and drilled holes into the heads of patients (letting evil spirits escape), spitting into the wounds they made. The mixture of cocaine, saliva, and resin numbed the site enough to allow hours of drilling.

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Calculate KP for the following reactions at the indicated temperature.

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