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Pulse, trip-hammer
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- Pneumatic larynx A device that uses air to produce sound, helping a person whose larynx has been removed to talk
- Interneuron A neuron that exclusively signals another neuron
- Fecund Fruitful, abundantly fertile. Just as a writer is prolific, a woman may be fecund, able to reproduce…
- Antibody cross reactivity The ability of an antibody to react with similar antigenic sites on different proteins