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 The climate testimony of gravestones
Historians know that the tombstones may reflect the lives of people who are no longer with us, but climatologists are now getting another kind of data from these letters carved in stone. | |
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 Iritis
Suffix "itis" means inflammation. Then we have: hepatitis, liver inflammation; otitis, ear inflammation; iritis, inflammation of the tissue that, as we know, makes up the colored ring around the pupil of the eye. The iris is a muscle in charge of opening and closing the pupil depending on the existing amount of light.
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 Ganglion
Ganglion is a cystic tubercle that appears in the joints and on the membranes (sheaths) that line tendons. They appear in the wrists and in the hands and, less frequently, in the knees and feet. The term comes from Greek ganglia, which means “tissue node”.
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 Larynx Cancer
Larynx cancer—that mobile structure which has as key functions: breathing, the production of the voice, and swallowing—is much more frequent in people who smoke and drink in excess, and this risk increases when they combine these two bad habits.
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 A H1N1 Virus
The first pandemic wave of the A H1N1 flu, 165 days later, covers five continents and so far has caused 4500 deaths confirmed by virological studies.
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