HIT predisposes to thrombosis, the abnormal formation of blood clots inside a blood vessel, and when thrombosis is identified the condition is called heparin-induced thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (HITT).
When and where was the fork invented ? Helen Brown, Auckland New Zealand According to the very entertaining book Ancient Inventions by Peter James and Nick Thorpe, the fork was probably invented in the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium where forks were first used during the 4th century AD.
The knife has been used by ancient man since the bronze age. The fork was mentioned in the Old Testament but is thought to have been used in Venice in the 11 century. The spoon (originally wooden or bone) has been used by man since the stone age. Tony Muir, Tamarama. Knives from flints and spoons from shells go back to early man. Bone forks have been found in the Qijia culture (2400 BC - 1900 BC) of ancient China but were not used widely in the West before the early seventeenth century and, in Britain, the eighteenth. Paul Roberts, Lake Cathie.