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Chewing tobacco
Tobacco that is chewed, not smoked. A form of smokeless tobacco. Chewing tobacco and snuff are the two main forms of smokeless tobacco in use in the United States. The prototypes of the person chewing tobacco were the baseball player (or…
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- Sex region Y A region on the Y chromosome that determines the sex of the individual. This region which goes by the symbol…
- Fracture, spiral A fracture, sometimes called a torsion fracture, in which a bone has been twisted apart. NTER> A fracture is…
- Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904) 'Russia's most famous physician' and greatest dramatist. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov graduated from…
- Dumdum fever Also called kala-azar, a chronic, potentially fatal parasitic disease of the viscera (the internal organs)…
- AC joint Acromioclavicular joint located between the acromion (a projection of the scapula that forms the point of the…
- Conjoined twins See: Conjoined twin
- Kidney Dis, Nat'l Inst of Diabetes and Digestive Igestive and (NIDDK): One of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S., the NIDDK has a multisystem name…
- Ornithine An amino acid that is not found in protein but is important in the formation of urea and the disposal of…
- Straight jacket See: Straitjacket