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The familiar sounds of your heart are made by the heart's valves as they open and close.
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Critical care patients are twice as likely to receive the wrong medication. Of these errors, 20% are life-threatening, and 42% require additional life-sustaining treatments.
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Pink eye is a term that refers to conjunctivitis, which is inflammation of the thin, clear membrane (conjunctiva) over the white part of the eye (sclera). It may be triggered by a virus, bacteria, or foreign body in the eye. Antibiotic eye drops alleviate bacterial conjunctivitis, and antihistamine allergy pills or eye drops help control allergic conjunctivitis symptoms.
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Hyperthyroidism leads to an increased rate of metabolism and affects about 1% of women but only 0.1% of men. For most people, this increased metabolic rate causes the thyroid gland to become enlarged (known as a goiter).
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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.
To help his students understand the term generalized other, Mead used baseball as an illustration. ...
Biology multiple choice questions
A wave whose wavelength is 0.500 m is traveling down a 500-m long wire whose total mass is 25 ...
An 82-kg painter stands on a long horizontal board 1.55 m from one end. This 27-kg board is ...
Perform the indicated division (long division polynomials)
The Hotair long noncoding RNA regulates chromatin