Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
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Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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A seasonal flu vaccine is the best way to reduce the chances you will get seasonal influenza and spread it to others.
Body systems and their major functions.
Glial cells and their functions.
How to find the derivatives of trigonometric functions using the chain rule (Part 1)