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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” - Dr. Seuss #quotes

​​What is Nerve Conduction Velocity Test (NCVT)? A nerve conduction velocity (NCV) test is used to assess nerve damage and dysfunction. Also known as a nerve conduction study, the procedure measures how quickly electrical signals move through your peripheral nerves. Peripheral nerves start where the nerve root takes off from the spinal cord. These nerves help control your muscles and experience the senses. Healthy nerves send electrical signals more quickly and with greater strength than damaged nerves. The NCV test helps doctor differentiate between an injury to the nerve fiber and an injury to the myelin sheath, the protective covering surrounding the nerve. It can also help doctor tell the difference between a nerve disorder and a condition where a nerve injury has affected the muscles. Making these distinctions is important for proper diagnosis and determining course of treatment.

After opening a carton of ice cream, store it in your freezer upside-down to prevent ice crystals from forming at the top #lifehack

Your brain continues to develop until your late forties #brain #funfact

​​Orangutan mothers refuse to share their food with their children once they determine their children are old enough to feed themselves. #animals #Orangutan

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” - Mahatma Gandhi #quotes

A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread. #science

Sometimes when people vent their problems, they’re not looking for an answer but rather they need someone strong enough to absorb their venting. Lending an active ear than an active mouth goes a long way. Just be there for someone.

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It takes about six minutes for alcohol to impact your brain cells #alcohol #funfact #brain

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​​What is Chemotherapy and How does it work? Chemotherapy is a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in your body. Chemotherapy is most often used to treat cancer, since cancer cells grow and multiply much more quickly than most cells in the body. Chemotherapy circulates throughout your body in the bloodstream. So it can treat cancer cells almost anywhere in the body. This is known as systemic treatment. Chemotherapy kills cells that are in the process of splitting into 2 new cells. Body tissues are made of billions of individual cells. Once we are fully grown, most of the body's cells don't divide and multiply much. They only divide if they need to repair damage. When cells divide, they split into 2 identical new cells. So where there was 1 cell, there are now 2. Then these divide to make 4, then 8 and so on. In cancer, the cells keep on dividing until there is a mass of cells. This mass of cells becomes a lump, called a tumour. Because cancer cells divide much more often than most normal cells, chemotherapy is much more likely to kill them. Chemotherapy damages the genes inside the nucleus of cells. Some drugs damage cells at the point of splitting. Some damage the cells while they're making copies of all their genes before they split. Chemotherapy is much less likely to damage cells that are at rest, such as most normal cells.

The ‘mas’ in ‘Christmas’ comes from the word ‘mass’, which, in its turn, is thought to come from the Latin phrase ‘Ite, missa est’ spoken by a priest at the end of the liturgy and which can be translated as ‘Go, it is the dismissal’. So Christmas means 'go away Christ'. #religion

In 2018, a woman accidentally paid a Swiss cafe $7,732 for a cup of coffee and a cake after she accidentally entered her PIN code as the tip She never got a refund #funfact

‘Millipede’ means ‘thousand-footed’, but until recently the longest known millipede had 750 legs. In 2020, the first species that does have a thousand legs was found. Although, the name is still a misnomer: this millipede has 1,306 legs. #animals

Wild marijuana grows all over Northern Japan, but they don't smoke it The Japanese government actually sends out survey and destruction teams every year to destroy the new growths of marijuana because it's so hard to get rid of #funfact #marijuana

Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise didn't die until recently. #knowledge

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