Medicinal Discoveries, Important information and Facts

Medicinal Discoveries

Some important facts

• The study of dreams is called Oneirology.
• The study of the beauty of human is called Kalology.
• At the time of creation of life there was no oxygen.
• The strongest part in the body is the eternal of teeth.
• The sex determination of human depends on male sex chromosomes.
• The fastest nervous speed is 532 kmph.
• The internal area of the lungs of human is 93 sq. m. which is forty times of the external area of the body.
• The bones are as strong as concrete and as hard as granite.
• Inside the body approximately 150 lakh cells are destroyed every second.
• The weight of the uterus of the woman which has not given birth to child is 50 grams and after giving birth to a child the weight becomes 100 grams.
• The weight of the kidney is approximately 150 grams.
• In a single inhaling, a normal adult takes 500 ml air inside the body.
• The capacity of heart to pump the blood is 4.5 liters per minute.
• The length of the small intestine is approximately 7 meter and its diameter is 2.5 centimeter.
• The blood circulation inside the body takes approximately 23 seconds.
• The antibiotic namely, penicillin is obtained from penicillium fungus.
• Human is the most intelligent hominid of the universe.
• Albatross is the largest sea bird, whose spread of feather is 10-12 ft.
• There are approximately 50 lakhs hair in the body of human.
• In the initial stage of formation of placenta, H..C.G. hormones flow in a large quantity and excreted through urine. At this time, in the testing of urine due to presence of this hormone pregnancy test is carried out.
• The heartbeat of a child is more than that of an adult.
• A single respiration completes in 5 seconds i.e. 2 seconds of inspiration and 3 seconds of expiration.
• Everyday blood in the body of the human carries approximately 350 liters of oxygen to the cells of the body. Out of this 97%  oxygen is carried by haemoglobin and remaining 3% is circulated by blood plasma.
• Zinc sulphide is used as rodenticide.
• First child born after operative procedure was Caesar.
• The largest living ape is Gorilla.
• Fish is first class protein as it contain essential amino acid.
• The soil which are rich in calcium are known as pedocals.
• Contour farming is a biological method of soil conservation.
• Vermi composting is done by worm.
• Asha: Accredited social health activist. It is a national rural health mission which provide community health care by trained female in every village.
• Lacrymal glands are situated in the eye orbit of eye.
• Gustation refers to the sense of taste.
• N₂O is used anesthetics.
• Ozone hole is clearly visible in Antarctica during winter seasons.
• Dolphin of Ganga river is known as National aquatic animal of India.
• Central food Technology Research is situated at Mysore.
• Altitude sickness is caused at high attitude due to low partial pressure of oxygen.
• “Mission Indradhanush” launched by the government of India pertain to immunization of children and pregnant women.
• Sarpgandha is a plant that is used to treat blood pressure, only found in India.
• The process of using microbes to treat areas of land or sea that have been contaminated by pesticides, oil or solvent is known as Bioremediation.
• The magnatic field inside the body forms the basis of obtaining the image of different body parts and this technique is called “MRI”.
• Indian veterinary institute is located at Bareilly.
• The web portal DACNET is released to e-Agriculture.
• The minimum distance of clear vision for a normal healthy eye of human is supposed to be 25 cm.
• Isotope of carbon is used in calculation of age of earth.
• Capsules of medicines is usually made up of gelatin.
• Melanin pigment is responsible for colour of human skin.
• The word Denisovan refere to an early human species sometime mentioned in media.
• In April, 2019 the world’s first 3D printed heart was produced using human tissue produced by scientists of Israel.
• Botanical survey of India (BSI) headquarter is located at Kolkata.
• First time entire genome of Asiatic lion was sequenced in May, 2019 by the scientists from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research’s (CSIR) Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad. 
• Discoverer of anit-Malarial drugs was extracted from Artermisinin (ajwain) being Conferred Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2015.
• In order to get clean drinking water disinfectant is not used to remove minerals.

Important element used in the Treatment of Disease

• Isotope of Uranium is used as nuclear fuel.
• Isotope of Cobalt is used in the treatment of cancer.
• Isotope of Iodine is used in the treatment of goitre.
• Isotope of Radium is used in the secondary treatment of cancer.