Why are hemorroids often referred to as "chalfonts"?
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Chalfont St. Giles = Piles\n\nI also call them Rockfords\n\nRockford Files = Piles\n\nand \n\nFarmer Giles = Piles\nBelinda Carlisles = Piles\nPlymouth Argyles = Piles\nNuremburg Trials = Piles\nNobby Styles = Piles\nClement Freud - Haemorroid\nSigmund Freud - Haemorroid
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LOL ^^^ no doubt. \nWhy do you think they cause hemmorroids?? Who told you that??
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There are not 3 hemisheres...hemi = HALF!!!\nIt is mainly above the Equator so it is in the Northern Hemisphere ....;
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i thought it was haemarroids?????
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A roly-poly or pillbug!\n\nThey get their name from the fact that they roll up into a ball when predators are near or they feel threatened.\n\n:)
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I think the horn on the forehead originated from Ray Harryhausen's special effects in the 1958 film "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad". I could be wrong, but I haven't seen any depictions of horned Cyclopes, (that's the plural - I checked), from before then. The mythical versions of Cyclopes are usually referred to as giants, so the elephant skull theory would make a lot of sense, but there's no reason why the stories couldn't also have originated from people with cyclopia. It may even explain why the elephant's nasal cavity was assumed to be an eye socket in the first place.\nHowever, it's quite easy to see why people may have come to that conclusion :\nhttp://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~loxias/cyclops02.htm\n\n\nMORE STUFF  \n\nThe cyclops isn't the only mythological creature to have similarities with people with genetic abnormalities. Mermaids for instance :\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirenomelia\nQuite a lot of these legendary creatures probably have some basis in fact. Tales of dragons may be based on early discoveries of dinosaur fossils (as well as living reptiles), and unicorns may have been based on travellers' descriptions of a rhinocerous.
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They aren't new, they have been around for as long as I can remember.  They are called Tessalon.
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Hemorroids are fairly common.  There are in general two types internal (bleeds more then they hurt) and external (hurts and more irritating then they cause bleeding).  The basic mechanisms of hemorroid development are straining too much like constant, heavy lifting or constipation or alot of inactivity like people who sit for most of the day.\n\nTo get rid of hemorroids, 1)less straining and heavy lifting including weight lifting where you have to bear down. 2)Increase fiber in your diet or take metamucil daily so that don't strain as much when you have a bowel movement. 3)regular aerobic exercise 4)loose weight.\n\nIf you have painful external hemorroids, 1)Sitz bath nightly 2)OTC stuff like anusol or preparation H 3)increase fiber in diet or metamucil.\n\nGood luck.  Most people don't need surgery for hemorroids and they can go away.
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They are derogatory terms meant to hurt the enemy. "Kraut" comes from sauerkraut, a food that originated in Germany. Hun refers to bands of uncivilized tribes who invaded Europe during the Dark Ages. And Bosch is a French term used to insult the Germans.\n\nThese names are comparable to calling Islamic terrorists "Towel heads." Not nice.
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Well... for one, 'asteroids' was already taken.\nFor the other, 'haemo' refers to blood, pertaining to the condition that leads to piles as haemorrhoids.
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Earthworm is the common name for the larger members of the Oligochaeta (which is either a class or subclass depending on the author) in the phylum Annelida. In classical systems they were placed in the order Opisthopora, on the basis of the male pores opening to the outside of body posterior to the female pores, even though the male segments are anterior to the female. Cladistic studies have supported placing them instead in the Haplotaxida, which also includes the family Haplotaxidae. Folk names for earthworm include "dew-worm", "night crawler" and "angleworm
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Well, chaffeur is the name of a limo driver, or a cab driver. I guess it's a french word.
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Because the male chauvenists like to put down the good guys in front of the ladies so the chauvenists can have the girls for themselves.  But it's not all the good guys.  Most of the good guys know when to fight back.  I love the good guys. :]
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It is a worm, some specie of leeches would suck the blood of larger animals.\nThe link has a picture.
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They have mouth openings often with flagellum to help with their filter feeding.  The tail end is thinner and is lighter in color/more transparent.  Just do an image search for amphioxus and see!
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Many organisms possess vestigial structures that have no apparent function, but that resemble structures their presumed ancestors had. Humans, for example, possess a complete set of muscles for wiggling their ears, just as a coyote does (table 22.1). \n\nBoa constrictors have hip bones and rudimentary hind legs. Manatees (a type of aquatic mammal often referred to as "sea cows") have fingernails on their fins (which evolved from legs). Figure 22.17 illustrates the skeleton of a baleen whale, which contains pelvic bones, as other mammal skeletons do, even though such bones serve no known function in the whale. The human vermiform appendix is apparently vestigial; it represents the degenerate terminal part of the cecum, the blind pouch or sac in which the large intestine begins. In other mammals such as mice, the cecum is the largest part of the large intestine and functions in storageusually of bulk cellulose in herbivores. Although some suggestions have been made, it is difficult to assign any current function to the vermiform appendix. In many respects, it is a dangerous organ: quite often it becomes infected, leading to an inflammation called appendicitis; without surgical removal, the appendix may burst, allowing the contents of the gut to come in contact with the lining of the body cavity, a potentially fatal event.\n    \nThe skeleton of a baleen whale, a representative of the group of mammals that contains the largest living species, contains pelvic bones. These bones resemble those of other mammals, but are only weakly developed in the whale and have no apparent function.\n    \nIt is difficult to understand vestigial structures such as these as anything other than evolutionary relicts, holdovers from the evolutionary past. They argue strongly for the common ancestry of the members of the groups that share them, regardless of how different they have subsequently become. \nComparisons of the anatomy of different living animals often reveal evidence of shared ancestry. In some instances, the same organ has evolved to carry out different functions, in others, an organ loses its function altogether. Sometimes, different organs evolve in similar ways when exposed to the same selective pressures.
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Pills........just go to the bathroom strain  and eventually they fall out.\n\nIf you meant piles they are called hemorroids......buy some cream at the drug store and use.....like preperation h.....