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How much do you actually know about your own body and how it works? Which organs do what, or what surprising discoveries science has made along the way?
Well, now’s your chance to find out. We’ve rounded up some curious facts and fascinating tidbits from the Facebook page Medical Journal Daily. Scroll down to see how many you already knew and how many will catch you off guard. And of course, don’t forget to upvote your favorites as you go. Enjoy!
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Susie Elle 5 months ago
The female heart also responds differently to frequent heavy physical exercise
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Isabel Galvez 5 months ago
People with this syndrome have a lower life expectancy, unfortunately. Pain tells us when something is wrong.
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Susie Elle 5 months ago
*Under local anaesthetic, because drilling a hole into your skull WILL hurt
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geezeronthehill 5 months ago
Let us exclude the thumb from the definition of 'finger', then, as it has a muscle in the hand.
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Fynnik 5 months ago
Here’s the thing. If you pick up a hot dish, you drop it before it burns you. The speed of that reaction is actually faster than the speed of the nerve impulse. So, it’s got to be a ganglion response. Ganglions are nerve clusters that can sort of be considered a second brain. Here’s the interesting part! If the hot dish is your mum’s best casserole dish, you will actually burn yourself to put It on the table. So, it’s not just a ganglion response. Something must’ve happened to make that decision. So, we’re now looking at where that thought process happened. Trouble is that it’s too quick to have made it to your brain and back. So, must be the ganglion. We’re left with the comforting thought that our body is genuinely looking out for us. And it’s capable of working out that a mild burn is better than a mum on the warpath.
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arthbach 5 months ago
Ms Nightingale was a horrific nurse. Patients under her nursing care died at a far greater rate than other nurses. However, she was an absolutely brilliant hospital administrator. The reduced mortality rates were based on this work, not nursing. The true founder of modern nursing was Mary Seacole. She was a traditional healer and nurse, born to a Scottish father and Creole mother in Jamaica. She faced a great deal of racism.
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Renee Kamphuys 5 months ago
Is this why some ppl can grow extremely long hair and for some it just doesnt grow past a certain point?
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keyboardtek 5 months ago
And walking during the day moves the tailbone, which acts like a pump for spinal fluid to be pumped into the brain. That is why sitting all day ages the brain.
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martymcmatrix 5 months ago
When working thoracic surgery, I learned that a LOT of pus can accumulate in one's chest...is there anything better than placing a chest tube and draining about 1000ml of creamy, smelly pus??? 🤭 🙋🏽
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Anonymouse 5 months ago
I took a swimming class in college, there was a guy who was so dense, he could jump in the pool and walk across the bottom without having to flail his arms around. It was a real struggle for him to swim due to his incredible negative buoyancy. The teacher on the other hand, could lay on his back in the water with his ears out, he was like ivory soap, lol
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arthbach 5 months ago
This happened to someone I know. She was also from Wales, didn't realise she was pregnant, and went on holiday to Spain. She started having pains and went to the hospital. She was adamant it was appendicitis. The emergency doctor kept saying 'Bebé'. The doctor was right.
Charity Angel 5 months ago
It happens more than you'd think. The Americans have a whole show about it (Didn't Know I Was Pregnant). Probably why, when I actually had appendicitis, I kept being asked if I was *sure* I wasn't pregnant. There came a point they were refusing to do the surgery, because they hadn't done a pregnancy test (because I was so dehydrated I hadn't been able to give them a urine sample - idiots gave me absolutely no fluids whatsoever). At that point, I'd already signed a form saying I wasn't pregnant, AND they had a CT scan of my abdomen and pelvis. And I still had to yell at them that I lack the necessary interest to have ever been in a potential baby-making scenario.
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Renee H. 5 months ago
Yeah you push an 11 pound baby through the head of your p***s after hours and hours of labor, then talk to me. And there weren't any epidurals in the 80's when I gave birth to my children.
Vinny DaPooh 5 months ago
First epidural for delivery was in 1938. It was common in the 60s
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Doofnuts 5 months ago
I'm guessing she was a rather large woman? Don't know for a fact, but, well, you know.
Charity Angel 5 months ago
If a baby grows in a specific orientation in the womb, sometimes they don't show even in slight women. It's a documented phenomenon, and you're just trying to fat-shame
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Judes 5 months ago
Preganancy weight gain can vary quite a bit, and it might also go unnoticed due to other factors (e.g., maybe she was dieting, or maybe she put it down to a recent lack of exercise). Also, just the tilt of a uterus can make a baby bump much less obvious.
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Sally Moen 5 months ago
Having tonsils removed was a common surgery for children, I guess it stopped due to the reasons listed in this post.
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Kabuki Kitsune 5 months ago (edited)
This is also why, if you're hot (say you've been out in the sun and sweating a lot), when you urinate, it will cause you to temporarily feel cooler. Urination is known to cause a drop in blood pressure, which has the effect of making you feel cooler. You aren't actually any cooler, it's just a perception.
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Littlemiss 5 months ago (edited)
I have a kmart bladder. I swear it hears a tinkle of water and thinks its holding 2 litres of water. Having had to drink 2 litres of water in one sitting for an exam, I don't recommend it.
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Sally Moen 5 months ago
In the future, we will have the technology to talk on our phones without being overheard, through subvocalization. I've read sci-fi stories where this is used, and this post explains how it becomes possible. I can see how this tech can benefit society every time I'm on public transportation and I get to hear both sides of a phone conversation on speaker
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keyboardtek 5 months ago
And that protective mucous layer is what anti inflammatory d***s reduce, which is why they cause bleeding ulcers.
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T'Mar of Vulcan 5 months ago
Chemotherapy can also cause this. It can go away afterwards or not. I still have a bit, but not as bad as when I was on chemo.
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Bartlet for world domination 5 months ago
Well I guess I'll just have to live with.. what was I talking about?
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The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago
Yeah, we just call this an after dinner stroll. I'll stick with that term instead thanks...
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 5 months ago
Unfortunately, this has led to questionable trends, such as perineum sunning, aka taint tanning
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keyboardtek 5 months ago
Then why do I have digestive distress within 30 minutes of drinking milk?
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Littlemiss 5 months ago
It is also the bone broken during manual strangu*lation. It's a key sign of it found during autopsy
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The Majestic Opossum 5 months ago (edited)
For anyone unfamiliar with this term, an Associate Degree is still a degree in the typical sense, just as a Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate are all still degrees, dispite different amounts of time involved in achieving them. It is typically earned as a post secondary education and indicates significantly more educational attainment than a diploma or certificate. To anyone that disagrees, yet does not hold any post secondary degree of their own: Have you considered just not commenting? I hear that is a solid option when you are ignorant of which you're speaking.
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BewilderedBanana 5 months ago
"risk of death" ... and here i was thinking death was a certainty :)
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Susie Elle 5 months ago
I don't think the image shows varicose veins, but simply little veins right below the skin. Varicose veins are bulging.
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Upstaged75 5 months ago
I actually never experience hunger. It's weird. I have scar tissue in my esophagus that causes it. I can literally go almost 24 hours without eating and not feel hungry. It's terrible for me because I wait until I get cravings - which are not usually for healthy food. And no I'm not thin either. I tend to be a late night eater.
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Upstaged75 5 months ago
And at some point they have to decide what their final "position" will be. Sitting or standing/lying down. Because after a point they're going to be frozen that way for the rest of their life.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 5 months ago
But if one looks weird, get it checked out! Remember ABCDE: asymmetry, border irregularity, color, diameter > 6cm, and evolution/ change over time
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Bored Sailor 5 months ago
This is wrong, they will carry both. My son had a bone marrow transplant from his little sister and he did take on some appearance traits as well. He wears a medical bracelet because if in an accident he gets blood typed it will come up as AB which he was A and daughter is B so now he types out as AB.
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KrazyChiMama 5 months ago
Interestingly I’m going thru menopause now and sugar will induce hot flashes if I consume it in the evening.
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Bored Sailor 5 months ago
So when my wife told me I was sneezing nonstop in my sleep and I did not know because I was a sleep means she must have imagined it.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 5 months ago
I’m blonde. It’s nice because you can’t see my leg hair, but you also can’t really see my lashes. It’s also definitely getting more brown/beige as I get older
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Auntriarch 5 months ago
My second cousin said to her mother that her son had deformed follicles. Her mother snapped back "no he hasn't, I've changed his nappy, I'd have noticed!"
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BookFanatic 5 months ago
Who else just rolled their eyes to see (hah) if they could hear them?
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Learner Panda 5 months ago
This could be either referred pain or a result of the gas (carbon dioxide) used to inflate the abdomen for an operation.
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Anyone-for-tea? 5 months ago
I have never understood why I vomit when my CRP goes up? What does my body think it’s doing then?
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KrazyChiMama 5 months ago
Incorrect. They feel less pain not more…source natural red head who’s never had a sore throat with strep throat and ruptured tympanic membrane with no ear pain.
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🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 5 months ago
I'm female, and am aghast at this trend of paying to mutilate themselves with duck lips.
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KrazyChiMama 5 months ago
Yep sitting eight hours a day is the new smoking in terms of effects on your health. A Cardiologist told me this first hand.
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Dragon mama 5 months ago
Way too much pseudoscience presented as fact. Don't believe everything you read on the internet!
Glenn Cuneo 5 months ago
ABout 3 years ago went to a wiener doc - urethra stuff going on. even the doc said "Wow" when they got 1600ml of urine out of me with a cath..... instant relief. Surgery two weeks later was no joke......
KrazyChiMama 5 months ago
Oh dear that’s a lot to retain! You reminded me of a patient I had early in my ER career. He said he hadn’t been able to urinate in 2 days and handed me a money clip, said “there’s $4200 in there and you can have it if you get a catheter in me in right now”! I took him back to a room and put the catheter in and of course gave him his belongings back. I told him do not wait that long again! Ruptured bladders are no fun for anyone!
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Abel 5 months ago
I stoped reading it about number 20. Most of these are either obvious or not proved by science...
Wild Cream 5 months ago
This is not a science website, just a content aggregator. Lots of pandas add context or additional information under each entry :) so the fake ones are usually called out as such
Load More Replies... Dragon mama 5 months ago
Way too much pseudoscience presented as fact. Don't believe everything you read on the internet!
Glenn Cuneo 5 months ago
ABout 3 years ago went to a wiener doc - urethra stuff going on. even the doc said "Wow" when they got 1600ml of urine out of me with a cath..... instant relief. Surgery two weeks later was no joke......
KrazyChiMama 5 months ago
Oh dear that’s a lot to retain! You reminded me of a patient I had early in my ER career. He said he hadn’t been able to urinate in 2 days and handed me a money clip, said “there’s $4200 in there and you can have it if you get a catheter in me in right now”! I took him back to a room and put the catheter in and of course gave him his belongings back. I told him do not wait that long again! Ruptured bladders are no fun for anyone!
Load More Replies... Abel 5 months ago
I stoped reading it about number 20. Most of these are either obvious or not proved by science...
Wild Cream 5 months ago
This is not a science website, just a content aggregator. Lots of pandas add context or additional information under each entry :) so the fake ones are usually called out as such
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