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2 days ago · 2.4 million (2016) [9] Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases (most commonly Alzheimer's ), which is characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that impacts a person's ability to perform everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, behavior, and motor control. [10]
1 day ago · Asia is the largest continent on Earth. It covers 9% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the longest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). Asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia.
6 days ago · Cockney is a dialect of the English language, mainly spoken in London and its environs, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower middle-class roots. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, [1] [2] [3] or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells.
4 days ago · Veganism The symbol widely used to denote a vegan-friendly product Pronunciation Veganism / ˈ v iː ɡ ən ɪ z əm / VEE -gə-niz-əm Vegan VEE -gən [a] Description Avoiding the use of animal products, particularly in diet Earliest proponents Al-Ma'arri (c. 973 – c. 1057) [b] Roger Crab (1621 – 1680) Johann Conrad Beissel (1691 – 1768) James Pierrepont Greaves (1777 – 1842) Lewis ...
4 days ago · A glass of cow milk. Cows in a rotary milking parlor. Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals and the caecilian Siphonops annulatus. [1] It is the primary source of nutrition for young mammals (including breastfed human infants) before they are able to digest solid food. [2]
2 days ago · Obsessive–compulsive disorder ( OCD) is a mental and behavioral disorder in which an individual has intrusive thoughts (an obsession) and feels the need to perform certain routines ( compulsions) repeatedly to relieve the distress caused by the obsession, to the extent where it impairs general function. [1] [2] [7]
3 days ago · Pantheism is the view that everything is part of an all-encompassing, immanent God. All forms of reality may then be considered either modes of that Being, or identical with it. [15] Some hold that pantheism is a non-religious philosophical position. To them, pantheism is the view that the Universe (in the sense of the totality of all existence ...
