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feel the tip of your nose. Mush it around, It's got a certain stale gummy bear feeling to it. Now feel your ears, all over. The outer edge, the back, the hard part in the front where the ear meets the …

Your pet dog needs more than two nipples because she can have up to 11 or more puppies. If she had two nipples, most of them sound starve. Twins are rare enough in humans. Two nipples are fine, and …

Individuals have not only hand dominance but also a dominant foot, eye and ear. There has also been a belief that this sidedness applies to chewing as well. However, the short answer is that no one is …

Dogs get benign prostatic hypertrophy, so, yes, other animals (in fact most old male dogs, so that would mean a whole lot of other animals) do get BPH. The most common conditions affecting the can …

When you breathe, air follows the path of least resistance. Since the mouth (to pharynx to trachea) has a larger diameter than the nostrils, most of the air will pass through the mouth (unless obstruc …

Unless specially coated or formulated, most pills break apart in the stomach. Note: "break apart", not necessarily absorbed. Take a gelatin capsule with rice or melatonin and immerse it in warm water …

I tried to do the same with other body parts, like flexing my arm and holding it back with my hand as I tried to straighten it, but the force from releasing that doesn't seem to be more powerful th …

It is something of a misnomer to speak of CSF “circulation,” particularly in the spinal canal, as there is no continuous loop circulation of CSF as there is in the cardiovascular system. For quit …

This is normal, and the effect is accentuated dramatically if you pretend to be holding an imaginary round object (somewhat smaller than a baseball, for instance.) The fingertips will all approximatel …

This very question has been asked a number of times before. Maybe an answer to why this is not superior to legs (or any other appendage) is in order. Your head, arms and legs don't move through magic. …

That conversation is strange. While different tables exist, the very first elements seem messed up. If the body is 60 (some sources say 70)% water, then oxygen has to be the most abundant element by w …

It is impossible at present to reproduce all the conditions of a womb. A womb is more than a warm fluid-filled home for nine months. A few days after fertilization, the trophoblast portion of the con …

You are looking for the Trigeminal nerve, the largest nerve in the face. Here it is with its branches. It is both afferent and efferent. Afferent and efferent components of the facial nerve in t …

The umbilical cord, which contains the umbilical arteries and vein so important for nutrient, oxygen and waste transport before birth, becomes useless pretty much the moment the lungs start working (t …

Yes, there are genetic reasons for this. But your observation is either incorrect or abnormal. The shoulder (and hip) muscles do the heavier work, thus have larger (and bulkier) muscles. The more dist …