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the part on the end of the human arm, used for grasping or holding.
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| Legg-Calve-Perthes disease |
A temporary condition in children in which the head, or "ball," of the thigh bone, referred to as the femoral head, loses its blood supply. As a result, the "ball" of the thigh bone collapses. The body will absorb the dead tissue and replace the dead bone cells with new bone cells. The new bone cells will eventually reshape the "ball" of the thigh bone. This condition causes the hip joint to become painful and stiff for a period of time.
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| Leguminosae |
An order of plants represented by the common peas and beans, having an irregular flower in which one petal stands up like a wing, and the stamens and pistil are enclosed in a sheath formed by two other petals. The fruit is a pod (or legume).
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| legume |
plants showing a simple or single pistil and characterized by a dry fruit pod that splits open by two longitudinal sutures and has a row of seeds on the inner side of the ventral suture (eg, bean, pea, soybean, locust); there are many valuable food, forage, and cover species, such as peas, beans, soybeans, peanuts, clovers, alfalfas, sweet clovers, lespedezas, vetches, and kudzu; sometimes referred to as nitrogen-fixing plants; legumes are an important rotation crop because of their nitrogen ...
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| legal |
Established in 1990 by the founders of the Human Genome Project to anticipate and address the ethical, legal, and social issues that arise as the result of human genetic research. ELSI programs are funded by both the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
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