Complications of influenza include: bacterial pneumonia, ear and sinus infections, dehydration, and worsening of chronic conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure, or diabetes.
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Sperm cells are so tiny that 400 to 500 million (400,000,000–500,000,000) of them fit onto 1 tsp.
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Many people have small pouches in their colons that bulge outward through weak spots. Each pouch is called a diverticulum. About 10% of Americans older than age 40 years have diverticulosis, which, when the pouches become infected or inflamed, is called diverticulitis. The main cause of diverticular disease is a low-fiber diet.
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Nitroglycerin is used to alleviate various heart-related conditions, and it is also the chief component of dynamite (but mixed in a solid clay base to stabilize it).
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More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
Palpating the Apical Impulse with the Patient on the Left Side
Regions of the abdominopelvic area
Supraclavicular lymph node palpation
The wide distribution of left hemisphere sites where cortical stimulation either blocked speech or ...
(a) Lymph node and (b) the palpation of cervical lymph nodes for enlargement due to infection.