The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea of the eye. It receives oxygen directly from the air.The human brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes on a hard drive.A newborn child can breathe and swallow at the same time for up to seven months.Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.Nerve impulses sent from the brain move at a speed of 274 km/h.A single human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones of the world combined.The average human body contains enough Sulphur to kill all the fleas on the average dog, enough carbon to make 900 pencils, enough potassium to fire a toy cannon, enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough water to fill a 50-litre barrel.
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Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. The term comes from mid 16th century, via Latin from Greek, from the word arthron, meaning ‘joint’. “-Itis” is a suffix in medicine and it means Inflammation. Osteo means bone. Put them together and you get: inflammation of the bony joints!Osteoarthritis is the most common chronic, degenerative joint disease with a prevalence of 38% in Canada (followed by heart disease at 27%) that affects mostly middle-aged and older adults (me included!). Osteoarthritis causes the breakdown of joint cartilage. It can occur in any joint, but it most often affects the hands, knees, hips, or spine.
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