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Anesthesia awareness is a potentially disturbing adverse effect wherein patients who have been paralyzed with muscle relaxants may awaken. They may be aware of their surroundings but unable to communicate or move. Neurologic monitoring equipment that helps to more closely check the patient's anesthesia stages is now available to avoid the occurrence of anesthesia awareness.
If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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.
Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.