Blood-clotting platelets had surged like minnows to the site of injury, clumping together to form a thrombosis that blocked the artery, causing a heart attack and tissue death.

Throughout, I stabilized myself with lots of examsmanship, in order to depress my fellow-candidates.

The normal distribution is the backbone of traditional statistics. We learn very early in our statistics training that the distribution of sample means, regardless of the shape of the parent distribution, approaches a normal distribution as the sample size increases.

Other sewless buttons are decorative pin-on ones — metal or jeweled.