Major teaching hospitals have the lowest mortality rate of all hospital categories, according to a new study conducted by Truven Health Analytics. But they also have significantly higher incidence of adverse patient-safety events and complications.
The turtle is often associated with myths of creation, in which it is seen as a support for the world: 1  In India, the earth rests on the backs of elephants, supported by the shell of a turtle. 2  In numerous North American creation myths, the turtle carries the world on its back.
The definition of a whale is a large mammal that lives in water, bears live young, has flippers, a flat horizontal tail and breaths air through one or two blowholes. An example of a whale is the character Moby Dick in the book Moby Dick. Whale is defined as to attack, hit very hard over and over again, or hunt whales.