|
Author Question: The ring-shaped cartilage just inferior to the thyroid cartilage is the ________ cartilage. A) ... (Read 114 times) |
Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
About one in five American adults and teenagers have had a genital herpes infection—and most of them don't know it. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those people who do not have genital herpes.
Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
The average human gut is home to perhaps 500 to 1,000 different species of bacteria.