Combo: Loose Leaf Version of Biology: Concepts & Investigations packaged with Connect Access Card
Combo: Loose Leaf Version of Biology: Concepts & Investigations packaged with Connect Access Card
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Author: Mariëlle Hoefnagels Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To describe:

The events that are involved in starvation.

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Starvation is a serious medical condition in which a person is suffering from extreme hunger due to lack of food that leads to organ damage or death. It occurs due to deficiency of calorie intake that is needed by the body to maintain an individual life. It has been found that a person can survive only five to ten minutes without oxygen and three to seven days without water, but it can survive more than seventy days without food.

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