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  2. Hemoglobin - Wikipedia

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    Hemoglobin in the blood carries oxygen from the respiratory organs (lungs or gills) to the other tissues of the body, where it releases the oxygen to enable aerobic respiration which powers an animal's metabolism. A healthy human has 12 to 20 grams of hemoglobin in every 100 mL of blood. Hemoglobin is a metalloprotein, a chromoprotein, and ...

  3. Spleen - Wikipedia

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    Both Blackmore and George Cheyne treated this malady as the male equivalent of "the vapours", while preferring the more learned terms "hypochondriasis" and "hysteria". [38] [40] [41] In the late 18th century, the German word Spleen came to denote eccentric and hypochondriac tendencies that were thought to be characteristic of English people. [36]

  4. Mentzer index - Wikipedia

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    The Mentzer index, described in 1973 by William C. Mentzer, [1] is the MCV divided by the RBC count. It is said to be helpful in differentiating iron deficiency anemia from beta thalassemia trait.

  5. Blood fractionation - Wikipedia

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    Plasma proteins are separated by using the inherent differences of each protein. Fractionation involves changing the conditions of the pooled plasma (e.g., the temperature or the acidity) so that proteins that are normally dissolved in the plasma fluid become insoluble, forming large clumps, called precipitate.

  6. Man - Wikipedia

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    The English term "man" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *man-(see Sanskrit/Avestan manu-, Slavic mǫž "man, male"). [4] More directly, the word derives from Old English mann . The Old English form primarily meant "person" or "human being" and referred to men, women, and children alike.

  7. Equivalent dose - Wikipedia

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    Equivalent dose is a dose quantity H representing the stochastic health effects of low levels of ionizing radiation on the human body which represents the probability of radiation-induced cancer and genetic damage.

  8. Woman - Wikipedia

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    Typically, the cells of female humans contain two X chromosomes, while the cells of male humans have an X and a Y chromosome. [23] During early fetal development, all embryos have phenotypically female genitalia up until week 6 or 7, when a male embryo's gonads differentiate into testes due to the action of the SRY gene on the Y chromosome. [24]

  9. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2006 - Wikipedia

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    11.13 Program For Text Translation from Arabic to English. 1 comment. 11.14 autogeneic bone marrow transplants. 3 comments. ... 12.16 Video conferencing. 4 comments.