Sunday, 10 June 2012

Amazing Medical Facts of the Body


361. The wax present inside the ear is made up of oil and sweat.
362. The female body is capable of giving birth to 35 children in one lifetime.
363. The spinal cord, which controls over 10 billion nerve cells, is less than two feet in length and its diameter is same as that of the index finger.
364. In the middle of the day, our eyesight will be sharper.
365. A newborn baby has more than 26 billion cells.
366. Sneezing clears dirt from the nose.
367. Inner ear is the main organ of balance.
368. Yawning brings more oxygen to the lungs.
369. Coughing clears mucous secretion from the throat.
370. Human speech is produced by the interaction of 72 muscles.
371. A New born baby loses about half of its nerve cells before it is born.
372. A neglected child brain can be substantially smaller than that of a healthy child.
373. On an average, the number of connections in the brain increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion in a newborn during his first month of life.
374. On an average it takes about 13 days for a grey hair to grow.
375. Healthy human hair emits sound.
376. The human brain stores memories of fear.
377. The nerve cells present in the nose, allows us to smell and regenerates through out ones life.
378. Reading aloud to children helps to stimulate brain development.
379. A hair grows by 0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, 1 to 1.5 cm per month and 12 to 15 cm per year.
380. Children lose an average of 90 hairs per day, which increases to 120 by old age.

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