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Lacuna
A small pit, cavity, defect or gap
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- Iso- Composed of cells of the same size and type. Isocellular is a Greek-Latin hybrid term compounded from the…
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- Plumbism Another name for lead poisoning.
- Random sample A group selected randomly, solely by chance