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Atropine was named after the Greek goddess Atropos, the oldest and ugliest of the three sisters known as the Fates, who controlled the destiny of men.
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Tobacco depletes the body of vitamins A, C, and E, which can result in any of the following: dry hair, dry skin, dry eyes, poor growth, night blindness, abscesses, insomnia, fatigue, reproductive system problems, sinusitis, pneumonia, frequent respiratory problems, skin disorders, weight loss, rickets, osteomalacia, nervousness, muscle spasms, leg cramps, extremity numbness, bone malformations, decayed teeth, difficulty in walking, irritability, restlessness, profuse sweating, increased uric acid (gout), joint damage, damaged red blood cells, destruction of nerves, infertility, miscarriage, and many types of cancer.
Mechanism of transport by a transporter, also called a carrier.
Some male birds and mammals congregate in communal courting grounds called leks.
In 1839 Mary Cragin, at the age of twenty-nine, became a convert to John Humphrey Noyes’s “communism
With the research technique called brainbow, each neuron is labeled with a different color, ...
Cutaway Drawing of Tholos, The So-called Treasury of Atreus
Cystic fibrosis is caused by a mutation in a protein called CFTR