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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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There are major differences in the metabolism of morphine and the illegal drug heroin. Morphine mostly produces its CNS effects through m-receptors, and at k- and d-receptors. Heroin has a slight affinity for opiate receptors. Most of its actions are due to metabolism to active metabolites (6-acetylmorphine, morphine, and morphine-6-glucuronide).
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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Bacteria have been found alive in a lake buried one half mile under ice in Antarctica.