Patients who cannot swallow may receive nutrition via a parenteral route—usually, a catheter is inserted through the chest into a large vein going into the heart.
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The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.
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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Egg cells are about the size of a grain of sand. They are formed inside of a female's ovaries before she is even born.
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Medication errors are more common among seriously ill patients than with those with minor conditions.
Important Motor Regions of the Human Brain
The visual areas of the human cerebral cortex.
Areas of sclerosis (see arrows) in the white matter of a patient with MS.
Climate change is an important vector for human diseases