Quotes About Physiology

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end…the person will die.

Your body has to come up with about 100 watts of energy to keep yourself warm

Just like the bones and muscles, the heart is designed to work in one gravity here on Earth, so when you put the heart in space, it operates differently and changes shape.

Your lungs are built to provide precisely the amount of air your body needs for all of your organs to function effectively.

Hiperactividad de la función intestinal en menoscabo de la cerebral

A German produces on average twice the feces of a Frenchman. Hyperactivity of the bowel at the expense of the brain, which demonstrates their physiological inferiority.

The nose is for breathing, the mouth is for eating.

From riding nearly fifty miles in one day on a horse, I learned that the fifteen feet of silk tied tightly around the midriff actually kept the organs in place and prevented nausea.

Oxytocin is released when you have an orgasm. For men, interestingly, it is only released when you have an orgasm with someone you love.

REFERENCES RANGES FOR HEMATOCRIT Category Normal Hematocrit (%) Men 36 to 50 Women 34 to 44 Children and Adolescents (under 18 years of age) 29 to 40

REFERENCE RANGES FOR MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME (MCV) MCV (fL) Category Greater than 100 High (macrocytic) 80 to 100 Normal Less than 80 Low (microcytic)

REFERENCE RANGES FOR MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION (MCHC) Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration (g/dL) Category Greater than 37 High 31 to 37 Normal Less than 31 Low

REFERENCE RANGES FOR PROGESTERONE Category Progesterone Normal Range (ng/mL) Men 0.2 to 1.4

REFERENCE RANGES FOR WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNTS White Blood Cell Count Normal Range (mcg/L) Total white blood cells 4,500 to 11,000* Neutrophils 1,800 to 7,800 (50 to 70 percent of total) Lymphocytes 1,000 to 4,800 (15 to 45 percent of total) Monocytes 0 to 800 (0 to 10 percent of total) Eosinophils 0 to 450 (0 to 6 percent of total) Basophils 0 to 200 (0 to 2 percent of total)

REFERENCE RANGES FOR FREE TESTOSTERONE Category Free Testosterone Normal Range (pg/mL) Men (20 to 29 years old) 9.3 to 26.5 Men (30 to 39 years old) 8.7 to 25.1 Men (40 to 49 years old) 7.2 to 24 Men (50 to 59 years old) 6.8 to 21.5 Men (older than 59 years old) 6.6 to 18.1

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

All bones are white and our blood is red