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.
Â» more... 1  The first actual find of a palaeolithic implement was that of a rudely fashioned flint in a sandbank at Menchecourt in 1841 by Boucher de Perthes. 2  JONATHAN BOUCHER (1738-1804), English divine and philologist, was born in the hamlet of Blencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, on the 12th of March 1738.