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Monday, May 28, 2012

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body part-8

141. Oesophagus/or food pipe, which is the passage for the food we eat to the stomach, is approximately 25 cm long.
142. A square inch of skin consists of three yards of blood vessel.
143. There are about 13, 500,00 neurons in the human spinal cord.
144. The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.
145. The cells of taste buds are constantly being renewed, roughly on every ten hours.
146. An average human head weighs about 8 pounds.
147. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, unlike our nose and ears.
148. The human body is composed of 80 percent of water.
149. The human eyeball is 24.5 mm long.
150. The total weight of skin in an average human adult is 61 pounds.
151. Taste buds are present inside the mouth and also at the roof of the mouth.
152. The human spinal cord is 45 cm long in men and 43 cm long in women.
153. The weight of human cerebellum is 150g.
154. The strongest muscles of the human body are masseters, which are present on either side of the mouth.
155. The human liver performs 500 different functions.
156. The heart muscles will stop working only when we die.
157. Children have more sensitive ears than adults.
158. Shivering is a way of trying to keep our body warm.
159. Humans have the ability to distinguish 4,000 to 10, 000 smells.
160. Every hour, the human eye can process 36,000 bits of information.

Sources:medindia
Engr.Sulthan

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