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Stands for kidneys, ureters and bladder. This is just medical jargon for a flat X-ray of the abdomen. Calcium stones often show up well on this type of X-ray.
Ãâó: www.kidneystonesbook.net/glossary.html
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| kuru |
a slow-virus disease rarely seen today due to the discontinuance of cannibalism and ritualistic butchering; caused neurodegenerative changes; symptoms included gait disturbance, incoordination, and swallowing difficulty.
Ãâó: www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/glossary.html
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| kuru |
a variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease which spread epidemically in the first half of the twentieth century under the Fore (natives of Papua New Guinea), probably due to cannibalistic rites
Ãâó: www.schuett-abraham.de/glossar-en.htm
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| kuru |
A disease found in the Fore tribe in New Guinea, and due to the eating of human infected tissue by members of a tribe. In general the women ate brain tissue rather than the men and so it was the women and children that died relatively rapidly of the disease.
Ãâó: bse.airtime.co.uk/defb.htm
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| kundalini |
One of the forces of nature; the power of Life. It is concentrated and centered within the spine and known primarily to those who attune to it through their spiritual practice.
Ãâó: www.thepeacefulplanet.com/glossary.html
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