The Human Body

Almost always, the right lung of the human body is slightly larger than the left.

Of the 22 bones connected to joints in your skull, only one in your lower jaw can be moved.

There are seven hepatitis viruses labelled A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Hepatitis A (HAV) is the most common form worldwide, spread & through oral-faecal transmission.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears grow.

Our brain has the capability of storing, recognising and remembering 10,000 different odours.

Cigarette smoking causes almost 90 percent of lung cancers and it contains 43 known carcinogens (cancer causing agent).

Dr. Murugappa Chenna Veerappa Modi, (India) a pioneer in mass eye surgery, performed a total of 6, 10, 654 cataract, squint correction and cornea transplant operations, between 1943 and 1993 on an average of 12,211 a year.

There are about 1, 20, 000 hairs on our head and 9000 taste buds in our tongue, on an average.

The central nervous system of a human body is connected to every part of the body by 43 pairs of nerves. 12 pairs go to and from the brain and 31 pairs go from the spinal cord.

80% of the body heat is vented through the head.


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