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On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Adolescents often feel clumsy during puberty because during this time of development, their hands and feet grow faster than their arms and legs do. The body is therefore out of proportion. One out of five adolescents actually experiences growing pains during this period.
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When Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, he called "zero degrees" the lowest temperature he was able to attain with a mixture of ice and salt. For the upper point of his scale, he used 96°, which he measured as normal human body temperature (we know it to be 98.6° today because of more accurate thermometers).
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The term bacteria was devised in the 19th century by German biologist Ferdinand Cohn. He based it on the Greek word "bakterion" meaning a small rod or staff. Cohn is considered to be the father of modern bacteriology.
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During the twentieth century, a variant of the metric system was used in Russia and France in which the base unit of mass was the tonne. Instead of kilograms, this system used millitonnes (mt).
An electron micrograph from an experiment demonstrating the function of a tight junction
Electron micrograph of phage T4
Nerve ending scanned by electron micrograph
The adolescent growth spurt in humans is seen as a “bump” in the height curve and a “spike” in the h
To rotate a matrix along the y-axis
Raman has a line of credit loan with the ICICI bank. The initial loan balance was $72000.00. ...