A bruise results when a part of the body is exposed to extreme pressure. What happens is that blood pools just beneath the skin. These pools of blood are what you actually see as blue or black patches - your bruise. Bruises disappear on their own, most of the time. Naturally, you would want...
Having a bruised knee can hurt, although it may not be a serious condition. A bruised knee can result from various types of trauma to the knee. Medically speaking, the cause of a bruised knee is blood leaking beneath under the skin. In most cases, a bruised knee will heal on its own after a...
Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
A considerable portion of blood is contains platelets which are fragments of megakaryocytes, the cells in the bone marrow. After stimulation by a specific hormone known as thrombopoietin, the platelets come away from the megakaryocytes and enter the blood stream to circulate. On entering the blood...
A pulled muscle happens when a muscle is put under too much stress, such as being stretched too much. This results in small tears in the muscle, which in turn results in pain being felt by the person. Medically, there are three categories of pulled muscles: Grade I, Grade II, and Grade III. The...
Before everyone had a cell phone and the capacity to record video on the fly, a police beat down was, by sheer chance, caught on tape in Los Angeles on March 3, 1991. Public fury about racism and police brutality erupted when a portion of the video showing several LAPD officers Tasering, kicking,...
Sometimes fingernails may have white spots. These are called leukonychia. These are actually some kind of scar or bruise caused by a prior injury on the nail bed. They are not, as some people think, a symptom of a deficiency in vitamins or minerals.The reason why people don’t associate...
Believe it or not, some of the most widely accepted historical "truths" are actually very inaccurate.
Dr. Teddy Wu, a physician at the Christchurch Hospital, published a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal, treated a woman who suffered a stroke caused by a hickey. Wu reported that one year ago, he treated a 44 year old Maori female at the emergency room of the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland...
A black eye, or a shiner, is an injury to the face rather than to the eyes. The name comes from the fact that the bruising occurs around the eye (or eyes) due to trauma to the area. Most black eyes are minor injuries and will go away on their own after about a week or so. In some cases, however,...
