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Human neurons are so small that they require a microscope in order to be seen. However, some neurons can be up to 3 feet long, such as those that extend from the spinal cord to the toes.
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Amphetamine poisoning can cause intravascular coagulation, circulatory collapse, rhabdomyolysis, ischemic colitis, acute psychosis, hyperthermia, respiratory distress syndrome, and pericarditis.
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Addicts to opiates often avoid treatment because they are afraid of withdrawal. Though unpleasant, with proper management, withdrawal is rarely fatal and passes relatively quickly.
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Increased intake of vitamin D has been shown to reduce fractures up to 25% in older people.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
A fixed action pattern elicited by a sign stimulus.
stop sign
Factors affecting vital signs of older adults
Head binding, or artificial deformation, was used by some populations as a sign of identity.
The American Sign Language Alphabet.
If their caregivers sign to them, deaf children will imitate these signs and “babble” in sign, ...