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Independent Pursuits: Words - acromegaly, n
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MANY BEMOAN the backbreaking Sunday edition of The New York Times
but Bernard Levin's medical metaphor was to calculate its weight and
size as an "experiment in acromegaly". Rarely used other than
technically, it is a late-19th-century coining for the doubly
gigantic, for it comprises the Greek...
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Independent Pursuits: Words - acromegaly, n
The Independent - London
; MANY BEMOAN the backbreaking Sunday edition of The New York Times but Bernard Levin's medical metaphor was to calculate its weight and size as an "experiment in acromegaly". Rarely used other than technically, it is a late-19th-century coining for the doubly gigantic, for it comprises the Greek
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CELLULITE SOLUTIONS.(Brief Article)
Sarasota Magazine
; Beautifully smooth skin with Sarasota's most experienced Endermologie(R) practitioner. Cellulite. It's that bumpy, orange peel-textured skin that plagues almost every woman over the age of 20. It forms when fat cells enlarge, constricting the connective tissue between the muscles and skin, causing
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The power of tea.(research on tea's effects on cancer)(Brief Article)
U.S. News & World Report
; For years, followers of alternative medicine have touted the health benefits of drinking tea. Now, scientists at Purdue University may have uncovered one way in which tea inhibits cancer growth. Since the early 1970s, population studies in Asia have associated drinking green and black tea (both are
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Pet Watch.(Features)
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) is one of the biggest causes of illness in older cats. The reason for this is not clearly understood but it is more common in cats aged seven years or older, so it is maybe age-related. The kidneys are one of the major filtering and excretory organs in the body. They
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The fat busters
Jerusalem Post
; 00-00-0000 Headline: The fat busters Byline: Nicky Blackburn Edition; Daily Section: Economics Page: 11 Sunday, September 15, 2002 -- There's one thing that aesthetic treatment company Ultrashape is unlikely ever to be short of when it carries out clinical trials - patients. Already the
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Thiazopyr and Thyroid Disruption: Case Study Within the Context of the 2006 IPCS Human Relevance Framework for Analysis of a Cancer Mode of Action
Critical Reviews in Toxicology
; Thiazopyr increases the incidence of male rat thyroid follicular-cell tumors; however, it is not carcinogenic in mice. Thiazopyr is not genotoxic. Thiazopyr exerts its carcinogenic effect on the rat thyroid gland secondary to enhanced metabolism of thyroxin leading to hormone imbalance. The
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Mie-Type Scattering and Non-Beer-Lambert Absorption Behavior of Human Cells in Infrared Microspectroscopy
Biophysical Journal
; ... Appl. Spectrosc. 53:148A-161A. Diem, M., P. Lasch, L. Chiriboga, and A. Pacifico. 2002. Infrared spectra and infrared spectral maps of individual normal and cancerous cells. Biopolym. Biospectrosc. 67:349-353. Diem, M., M. Romeo, L. Miller, and P. Lasch. 2004a ...
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Fat.
American Scholar
; I spend much of my life looking at cells through a microscope. Of all the cells I see, few are as distinctive as the human fat cell. Inside, a large fat globule steamrolls the rest of the cell's contents flat against the outer membrane until the sphere bulges like a mozzarella. Freeze and section
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The nucellus and chalaza in monocotyledons: structure and schematics.
The Botanical Review
; II. Introduction The significance of certain ovular characters (number of integuments and nucellus type) in higher-level systematics of angiosperms has long been noted, especially for dicotyledons (e.g., van Tieghem, 1898; Young & Watson, 1970; Philipson, 1974; Dahlgren, 1975). Indeed, ovular
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Endo-Beta-1,4-glucanase expression in compatible plant-nematode interactions
Plant Cell
; Cyst nematodes and root-knot nematodes elaborately transform cells within the vascular cylinders of plant roots into enlarged, multinucleate, and metabolically active feeding cells. The giant cells of root-knot nematodes are formed by repeated karyokinesis uncoupled from cytokinesis, whereas the
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