Medical Science

The ABO blood groups were discovered over one hundred years ago. In the early 1900’s, an Austrian scientist, Karl Landsteiner, found through experimentation that red blood cells of some people clumped or agglutinated when mixed with serum (here difference between…
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The mysterious story of people only using 10 percent of their intellectual powers is completely false. However, the idea behind it is not, so the reason why people always take it the wrong way is a simple misunderstanding of the…
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The pituitary gland is divided anatomically into two parts. These are the anterior lobe and the posterior lobe. The anterior lobe of the pituitary gland produces and secretes five types of hormones. All of them are regulated by a positive…
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Chemotherapy destroys normal cells and cancer cells at the same time. Medical science is constantly looking for ways to specifically target the cancer cells at a greater rate than normal body cells. One way to do this is to create…
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Blood clotting is one of the most important and complicated physiological methods of protecting the human body. There are two major systems involved in blood clot formation. These are blood platelets and the thrombin system. Platelets are tiny cellular elements…
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The heart: an overview Sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-threesixty-eighta very normal resting pulse for an adult. For some people, the heart rate isn’t always that slow, or regular. For them, medication can bring it to a more comfortable and healthy pace and…
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Blood types are determined by instructions given on a person’s DNA. If a person has instructions for Type A blood, the blood cell membranes will include a certain A type protein within them. As the person develops, that particular protein…
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No, humans do not only use 10% of their brain, the idea is ridiculous. Heres a very non-technical explanation… Essentially every region of the brain is used/exerts an effect in our mental processes, 10% usage contradicts nature. As its known,…
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The kidneys are two bean shaped organs that are essential to life and many life processes. Each kidney is about the size of a human fist and is located near the middle of the back, below the ribs, somewhere in…
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White blood cells are the immune systems way of guarding the body against any foreign material, disease causing and otherwise, that enters the body. Any increases in the number of white blood cells in the blood indicate any number of…
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