There are more sensory neurons in the tongue than in any other part of the body.
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The senior population grows every year. Seniors older than 65 years of age now comprise more than 13% of the total population. However, women outlive men. In the 85-and-over age group, there are only 45 men to every 100 women.
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Colchicine is a highly poisonous alkaloid originally extracted from a type of saffron plant that is used mainly to treat gout.
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The Babylonians wrote numbers in a system that used 60 as the base value rather than the number 10. They did not have a symbol for "zero."
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
Transduction of mechanical vibrations to electric signals in the organ of Corti.
Because the leg muscles of children with muscular dystrophy are weak, they must perform the Gowers’
Receptive Organ of the Semicircular Canals
Enlargement of spiral organ (organ of Corti)
All human organ systems and their functions (Part 1)