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  2. Basal body temperature - Wikipedia

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    There is limited evidence about the effectiveness of fertility awareness family planning methods, some of which use basal body temperature as one component. [1] About 24% of women who use any type of fertility awareness program become pregnant during the first year, compared to about 85% of sexually active women who are not trying to prevent a ...

  3. Pulmonary embolism - Wikipedia

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    Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of an artery in the lungs by a substance that has moved from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream (). [6] Symptoms of a PE may include shortness of breath, chest pain particularly upon breathing in, and coughing up blood. [1]

  4. Hematocrit - Wikipedia

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    [clarification needed] [16] The normal hematocrit level is around 40% for adult women and about 45% for adult men. In newborns, it is approximately 55% and drops to around 35% by 2 months of age. After that, it gradually increases during development, reaching adult levels at puberty. [17]

  5. Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich - Wikipedia

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    He is known for his measurement of mean normal human body temperature of 37 °C (98.6 °F), now known more accurately to be about 36.8 °C (98.2 °F). [ 1 ] Life and career

  6. Toxoplasmosis - Wikipedia

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    Acute toxoplasmosis is often asymptomatic in healthy adults. [13] [14] However, symptoms may manifest and are often influenza-like: swollen lymph nodes, headaches, fever, and fatigue, [15] or muscle aches and pains that last for a month or more. It is rare for a human with a fully functioning immune system to

  7. Yugoslavia - Wikipedia

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    Yugoslavia (/ ˌ j uː ɡ oʊ ˈ s l ɑː v i ə /; lit. ' Land of the South Slavs ') [a] was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I, [b] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and constituted the ...

  8. Scientific consensus on climate change - Wikipedia

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    The human activities causing this warming include fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and land use changes such as deforestation, [3]: 10–11 with a significant supporting role from the other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide. [1]: 7 This human role in climate change is considered "unequivocal" and "incontrovertible".

  9. Global surface temperature - Wikipedia

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    Global surface temperature (GST) is the average temperature of Earth's surface. More precisely, it is the weighted average of the temperatures over the ocean and land. The former is also called sea surface temperature and the latter is called surface air temperature. Temperature data comes mainly from weather stations and satellites.