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Acclimatization to altitude
The main cause of altitude sickness is going too high too fast. Given time, the body can adapt to the decrease in oxygen concentration at a specific altitude, process known as acclimatization. To acclimatize, a number of changes take place…
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- Tummy 1. Babytalk for the stomach. The word tummy is derived from stomach.2. Slang for a paunch. A big tummy raises…
- Cyanide >First, get fresh air by leaving the area where the cyanide was released. Moving to an area with fresh air is…
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- Horizontal A chemical substance produced in the body that controls and regulates the activity of certain cells or…
- Gastric atrophy A condition in which the stomach muscles shrink and become weak. It results in a lack of digestive juices…
- Kok disease A genetic disorder also known as hyperexplexia in which babies have an exaggerated startle reflex (reaction)…
- Curie (Ci) A unit of radioactivity. (Specifically, the quantity of any radioactive nuclide in which the number of…