Oliver Wendell Holmes is credited with introducing the words "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" into the English language in 1846.
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Serum cholesterol testing in adults is recommended every 1 to 5 years. People with diabetes and a family history of high cholesterol should be tested even more frequently.
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Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.
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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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The ratio of hydrogen atoms to oxygen in water (H2O) is 2:1.
Effector functions of macrophages
Two invaders of the Great Lakes: (a) sea lamprey
Mouse lung stained to visualize differentiated epithelial cells and macrophages
