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  2. Thermal burn - Wikipedia

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    A thermal burn is a type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water, steam, hot cooking oil, fire, and hot objects. Scalds are the most common type of thermal burn suffered by children, but for adults thermal burns are most commonly caused by fire. [2] Burns are generally classified from first degree up to ...

  3. Cyanide poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Cyanide is a potent cytochrome c oxidase (COX, a.k.a. Complex IV) inhibitor, causing asphyxiation of cells. As such, cyanide poisoning is a form of histotoxic hypoxia, because it interferes with the ability of cells to take or use oxygen via oxidative phosphorylation. [25]: 1475. Specifically, cyanide binds to the heme a3-CuB binuclear center ...

  4. Chronic pain - Wikipedia

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    The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines chronic pain as a general pain without biological value that sometimes continues even after the healing of the affected area; [8] [9] A type of pain that cannot be classified as acute pain [b] and lasts longer than expected to heal, or typically, pain that has been experienced on most days or daily for the past six months, is ...

  5. Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers - Wikipedia

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    Stomach cancer, youth, people who suffer from shyness - Alfie Lambe. Invoked against cattle diseases - Berlinda of Meerbeke [4] Chest problems, lung problems, gambling addictions - Bernardino of Siena. Invoked during childbirth and against diseases of the eye - Hemma of Gurk. Childbirth, sickness - Juliana of Nicomedia.

  6. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    The second stage is the sleeping, and it always lasts nine days. The last stage is fever, and it always lasts three days. At the end of the fever stage, the victim will die. The only cure is water sent down from the fairies' Mount Ziriat. The cure will only be discovered "when cowards find courage and rain falls over all Bamarre". Great plague

  7. Palliative care - Wikipedia

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    Palliative care. Palliative care (derived from the Latin root palliare, or 'to cloak') is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1] Within the published literature, many definitions of palliative care exist.

  8. Four Noble Truths - Wikipedia

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    The truth of the cessation of Dukkha; 4. The truth of the path, the way to liberation from Dukkha". [ web 5 ] Geshe Tashi Tsering: "The four noble truths are: 1. The noble truth of suffering; 2. The noble truth of the origin of suffering; 3. The noble truth of the cessation of suffering and the origin of suffering; 4.

  9. Our Lady of Fátima - Wikipedia

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    [Mary] opened Her hands once more, as She had done the two previous months. The rays [of light] appeared to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and the souls [of the damned]. The latter were like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms.