A single elevated ESR, without any symptoms of a specific disease, will usually not give enough information to make a medical decision. Furthermore, a normal result does not rule out inflammation or disease. Moderately elevated ESR occurs with inflammation but also with anemia, infection, pregnancy, and with aging.
Between 65 and 81 percent of people can curl their tongues, and slightly more women than men can do it, studies find. The notion that a person's ability to roll his or her tongue is determined by a single dominant gene stems from a paper published in 1940 by geneticist Alfred Sturtevant.
When i roll my tongue back on itself, it feels very rough and dry, even though there is lots of saliva in my mouth and i drink lots of water and am not dehydrated. I brush my tongue every day and keep it clean but this makes no difference. I first noticed this problem when I was around 13 (7 years ago). Also, if i...