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The heart is located in the center of the chest, with part of it tipped slightly so that it taps against the left side of the chest.
When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
Cytomegalovirus affects nearly the same amount of newborns every year as Down syndrome.
More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
Common abbreviations that cause medication errors include U (unit), mg (milligram), QD (every day), SC (subcutaneous), TIW (three times per week), D/C (discharge or discontinue), HS (at bedtime or "hours of sleep"), cc (cubic centimeters), and AU (each ear).