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In people with Cushing syndrome, “too much cortisol leads to a more rounded face, pinkish red cheeks, thinner skin with easy bruises, a puffy neck, and a worsening upper back hump,” Dr. Ghalib ...
An asteroid is heading towards Earth, and Tom and Jerry are determined to stop it; Napoleon is hungry for the vending machine food, so he tries to get the "Best Candy Bar Ever!" out of that machine by using a $1 bill from Jerry.
T Coronae Borealis, also called the Blaze Star, is actually two stars — a hot, dense white dwarf, and a cooler red giant. The dwarf star, which ran out of fuel long ago and collapsed to roughly ...
Accommodation is the process by which the vertebrate eye changes optical power to maintain a clear image or focus on an object as its distance varies. In this, distances vary for individuals from the far point —the maximum distance from the eye for which a clear image of an object can be seen, to the near point —the minimum distance for a ...
of or pertaining to the eye's pupil: Greek κόρη (kórē), girl, doll; pupil of the eye corectomy: cord(i)-of or pertaining to the heart (uncommon as a prefix) Latin cor, heart commotio cordis, cornu-applied to describing processes and parts of the body as likened or similar to horns Latin cornū, horn greater cornu: coron-pertaining to the ...
Citizen scientists spotted an object zipping through the Milky Way at more than 1 million miles an hour, and a new study shows it could be a rare hypervelocity star.
Keratoconus. Keratoconus ( KC) is a disorder of the eye that results in progressive thinning of the cornea. [ 3] This may result in blurry vision, double vision, nearsightedness, irregular astigmatism, [ 4] and light sensitivity leading to poor quality-of-life. [ 3][ 5] Usually both eyes are affected. [ 3] In more severe cases a scarring or a ...
We've all grown up thinking that sitting too close to the television is damaging to our eyes ... but that might not be the case. Technology spawns lots of confusion ... and a few affectionately ...