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Bell, Charles
(1774-1842) Renowned surgeon, anatomist and artist, who discovered Bell's palsy, paralysis of the facial nerve, the nerve that supplies the facial muscles on one side of the face. Bell waa a great neurologist and made many of the early…
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- Randomize To use chance alone to assign or arrange. For example, the investigators may randomize the participants in a…
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