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Nucleus amygdalae
See: Amygdaloid nucleus
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- Rickets A disease of infants and children that disturbs normal bone formation (ossification). Rickets is a failure to…
- Demarcation A setting of limits; a boundary; marking the limits of, delimiting; setting apart, separating. The word…
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