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The nervous system's detection of damaging stimuli, which is not the same thing as the experience of pain.
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Tolerance and withdrawal are pharmacological adaptations, distinct from addiction and from harm.
Living bone is continuously resorbed and rebuilt, which is why fractures heal and why healing runs in stages.
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Wounds kept moist under an occlusive dressing re-epithelialize faster than wounds allowed to dry and scab.
Holding fractured bone still enough, and aligned well enough, for biology to do the repair.
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A fracture that stops progressing toward healing, usually because of motion, gap or lost blood supply.
Local anaesthetic placed around a nerve or plexus to interrupt conduction from a whole region, and the rebound that follows.
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Most of what is called taste is smell arriving at the receptors from the back of the mouth.
The claim that pre-industrial night sleep came in two blocks separated by a waking interval, and the dispute over how general that was.
How bodies chemically dispose of foreign compounds, and why those pathways differ enough between species to make one animal's food another's poison.
A family of vitamin-A derivatives that act on nuclear receptors, arranged in a potency ladder that is not a ranking of usefulness.
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Tissue fed by a single terminal or retrograde vessel has no redundancy, so injury there heals badly.
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