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Fascinating Medical Facts

Here are some fascinating facts about medicine and the medical world.

Baldness

Alopecia is the medical term for baldness (loss of hair from the scalp).

The total length of the blood vessels in the body an average sized human being is around 100,000 km.

There are a total of 206 bones in the human body.

Ten times as many men as women are color blind.

To smile you use 17 muscles and to frown you use 43 muscles.

The first anaesthetic was laughing gas. It was discovered in 1799 by Humphry Davis, a British chemist.

You can find this one in the Animals category

Cows have four stomachs.