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Initiating with another sequel of blog entries, this time the phobia comes into the scenario...Here are few types of different phobia and their vernacular meanings. Many are really amazing. We might not even be knowing that people have fear for such minor events. Try taking a look at them!

1. Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing (You can easily spot out these phobic people with your nose!)

2. Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching (All of us; for mosquitos)

3. Acerophobia- Fear of sourness (e.g.- sour food) (Man! the acid is weak one! It won't dissolve down your tongue!)

4. Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects (Shouldn't be a pathologist!)

5. Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic (Even I hate garlic!)

6. Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street (That's why govt. has provided zebra-crossing!)

7. Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions (Lecture time!)

The 2nd sequel would concentrate upon the anatomical facts of human body...Few are really really amazing...

Fact 1
Scientists say the higher the I.Q.,the more you dream.

Fact 2
The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

Fact 3
A person uses 200 muscles to take one step.

Fact 4
The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man.

Fact 5
A pair of human feet contains 250,000 sweat glands.

Fact 6
A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball.

Fact 7
The acid in the stomach is strong enough (very low pH) to dissolve razor blades.

Fact 8
The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Fact 9
It takes food seven seconds to get from the mouth to the stomach.

Fact 10
The average human dream lasts 2-3 seconds.

Fact 11

Here is a blog disclosing some of the amazing facts of life which might have remained concealed to all the readers. I hope you would enjoy reading these facts and would post comments and enjoy interesting discussions!

The current part would focus more upon the facts and causal effects of bread on human body anatomy and physiology. Just have a look at the 5 facts below!

Fact 1
Fully half of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

Fact 2
In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged the globe!

Fact 3
More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.

Fact 4

This is my second and concluding part of Dose response curve. Sorry for the delay of the II part due to non-availabilty of the graph in suitable picture format (.jpg etc).

Antagonist and correlation to Dose response curve

Overview

Cold sores are generally blsiter like structures that may appear anywhere near lips, nose or mouth; or in their vicinity...They are tiny, but painful and at times might be quite painful so as to distract attention from performance of works by the infected person.Cold soresa are generally triggered up by virus, particularly Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) type I. They are also called as fever blisters, althoug hthey have nothing in particular to do with fever. They are filled with liquid, spreading of which to other places of body or to different person upon contact, might lead to infection of that new area of the new uninfected person.

History

DED occurs when the eye does not produce tears properly, or when the tears are not of the correct consistency and evaporate too quickly.In addition, inflammation of the surface of the eye may occur along with DED. If left untreated, this condition can lead to pain, ulcers, or scars on the cornea and some loss of vision. However, permanent loss of vision from DED is uncommon.DED can make it more difficult to perform some activities, such as using a computer or reading for an extended period of time and it can decrease tolerance for dry environments such as the air inside an airplane.

Other Names for DED
DED is sometimes called
1)dry eye syndrome
2)keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS)
3)dysfunctional tear syndrome
4)lacrimal keratoconjunctivitis
5)evaporative tear deficiency
6)aqueous tear deficiency.

Types of DED
There are two basic types of DED.

This blog is purely intended to exhibit the pretty high incidence rate of Tuberculosis globally. It would be pleasent for me to recieve comments, criticisms and discussions of all types.

Tb has achieved a high incidence throughout the globe, primarily due to many reasons like emergence of multi-drug resistance strains of M.Tb, poor sanitation and personal hygiene in developing and underdeveloped nations, super infection by HIV etc. Tb infection has a pretty high figure of infecting about one-third of global population. Among these infected populations, many don’t show the symptoms of infection due to the dormancy of the mycobacterium inside the host. However, it is claimed that about 10 % of them develop life-threatening situation during the course of their lifetime.

Here is a blog for all the cosmetically active and beauty concious readers. Obese and overweight people would surely love to take a look at this topic. However, beware of all the cautions meant in this domain.

Purpose

Liposuction as, the name indicates, is a method meant to 'air' out the excess fat deposition out of the body. It could be done ant any place where excess fat is deposited (identified by a doctor). It is a surgical process and can be done by an expertized cosmetic surgeon. This would shape up the body according to the taste, like and expectations of the patient. It is more of a 'look' rather than a 'neccesity'.

Method of surgery

It consists of 3 parts:

1) Suction pump

2) Non-collapsible tube

3) Canula

Introduction

A new research has found out a probable connection between serum levels of Prostrate -Specific Antigen (PSA) and few NSAID like Ibuprofen, aspirin etc. This study was carried out first by Dr. Eric Singer, a urology resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.

Details

It was reported that these painkillers could reduce the PSA level in blood. However, it has not been established yet that these would prevent ot cure prostrate cancer. Such a link was found out for acetaminophen too. But it could not be supported dramatically by statistics.

Singer and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,319 U.S. men over the age of 40, they found those who took non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs nearly every day had PSA levels that were about 10 per cent lower compared with men who did not take the drugs.

Introduction
This time its a new big-bang, but in medicine! Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a 'giant' technology in medicine- Nanotube Longboats. This research work has been lead by Stephen Lippard.

Details

The researchers had attached a modified version of anti-carcinogenic drug cisplatin and also folic acid to those carbon nanotubes. They report that these nanotubes would kill selectively the cells expressing the folic acid receptors. These receptors are expressed numerously in cancer cells; much more than normal viable cells.
Besides this, another anti-carcinogenic drug paclitaxil has also been loaded onto these nanotubes and their effect observed.

Pharmacokinetics