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Pneumatic larynx
A device that uses air to produce sound, helping a person whose larynx has been removed to talk
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- Magnesia Named after a town in present day Turkey where an ore containing magnesium carbonate was mined. Milk of…
- Piles 1. A term in use since the 15th century for hemorrhoids. 2. A street name for crack cocaine
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- Transverse A fracture in which the break is across the bone, at a right angle to the long axis of the bone.
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