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More than 34,000 trademarked medication names and more than 10,000 generic medication names are in use in the United States.
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When blood is deoxygenated and flowing back to the heart through the veins, it is dark reddish-blue in color. Blood in the arteries that is oxygenated and flowing out to the body is bright red. Whereas arterial blood comes out in spurts, venous blood flows.
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Multiple sclerosis is a condition wherein the body's nervous system is weakened by an autoimmune reaction that attacks the myelin sheaths of neurons.
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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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The first documented use of surgical anesthesia in the United States was in Connecticut in 1844.