What are bezoars? How undigested fruit, chewing gum and hair could be causing stony masses in your stomach
Are there stony masses growing in your stomach? While bezoars are considered rare, caution should be taken when eating and ...
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The Fruit Of The Gods From An Indiana Tree?
One patient had eaten over two pounds of persimmons every day for over 40 years. Surgery is often required to remove bezoars, but a recent study indicated Coca-Cola could be used to chemically shrink ...
Dangers of 'stony masses' from swallowing things like gum and hair
And while eating vegetables and fruit is typically good for you, occasionally bezoars can form out of the indigestible parts ...
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15 Things You May Not Know About Goats
Some researchers believe that goats were domesticated from bezoars (C. aegagrus), a mountain ibex found in West Asia. Goats are generally pretty hardy animals, but the one thing they don't seem to ...
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S1.1 - S1.23. JARVIS C, SPENCER M, HUXLEY R (2012) Sloane’s plant specimens at the Natural History Museum (with a supplementary account of Sloane’s fossils by Cyrille Delmer), In: From Books to ...