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Beau-Reil cross furrows
See: Beau's lines
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- Second-hand smoke Environmental tobacco smoke that is inhaled involuntarily or passively by someone who is not smoking…
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- Variolation The old practice of inoculating someone with the virus of smallpox to produce immunity to the disease. Lady…
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- Scapula The shoulder blade (or 'wingbone'), the familiar flat triangular bone at the back of the shoulder. The word…