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Congestive heart failure is a serious disorder that carries a reduced life expectancy. Heart failure is usually a chronic illness, and it may worsen with infection or other physical stressors.
The Romans did not use numerals to indicate fractions but instead used words to indicate parts of a whole.
ACTH levels are normally highest in the early morning (between 6 and 8 A.M.) and lowest in the evening (between 6 and 11 P.M.). Therefore, a doctor who suspects abnormal levels looks for low ACTH in the morning and high ACTH in the evening.
More than 2,500 barbiturates have been synthesized. At the height of their popularity, about 50 were marketed for human use.
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.