About 60% of newborn infants in the United States are jaundiced; that is, they look yellow. Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. When babies begin to be affected by excessive jaundice and begin to have brain damage, they become excessively lethargic.
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The average adult has about 21 square feet of skin.
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The modern decimal position system was the invention of the Hindus (around 800 AD), involving the placing of numerals to indicate their value (units, tens, hundreds, and so on).
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A headache when you wake up in the morning is indicative of sinusitis. Other symptoms of sinusitis can include fever, weakness, tiredness, a cough that may be more severe at night, and a runny nose or nasal congestion.
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Pregnant women usually experience a heightened sense of smell beginning late in the first trimester. Some experts call this the body's way of protecting a pregnant woman from foods that are unsafe for the fetus.
Striking examples where high surface area releases heat.
Hydrocephalus. The figure on the left is a child with the enlarged ventricles of hydrocephalus. The
(Left panel) The transition level (TL) for moving out of the parental home for 240 young men and ...
Pulmonary embolism. The purple shaded section shows the area of the lung that is dying from lack of ...
Substance P assists the transmission of impulses across the synapse
The heart and its major blood vessels. Oxygen-rich blood is pumped from the lungs to the left