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| (Plural is viscera.) A large internal organ of the body. Especially one located in the great cavity of the trunk. (noun) |
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| (Scarpa's fascia) is the deep membranous layer of subcutaneous abdominal fascia. |
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| A backward or return flow. |
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| A bending; a bent portion of a structure or organ. |
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| A condition of stricture or contraction. |
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| A drug used as a muscle relaxant and for anxiety disorders. |
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| A drug used in the treatment of ulcers. |
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| A false belief that is firmly maintained in spite o proof or evidence to the contrary, as when a patient believes he is Napoleon or Jesus. |
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| A gland in the male that surrounds the neck of the bladder and the urethra. |
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| A line about which a revolving body turns or about which a structure would turn if it did revolve; the second cervical vertebra. |
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| A misleading sensory image, such as a mirage; a false interpretation of a real sensory image. |
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| A nonmetallic element occurring in nature. |
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| A person who acts as an assistant, as an aide de camp, nurse's aide, or a teacher's aide. Refers to a person |
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| A place, position, or locus. |
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| A quantity needed to make a thing complete; to be complementary to (supplying a defect, making complete, accessory). |
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| A reflected action or movement; the sum total of any particular involuntary activity. |
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| A region, usually one of some length; specifically a collection of nerve fibers or a number of organs, arranged in a series, serving a common function. |
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| A rounded mass of food or medicinal preparation ready to swallow, or such a mass passing through the gastrointestinal tract; a mass of pharmaceutical preparation given intravenously for diagnostic purposes. |
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| A rounded mass or enlargement (noun). |
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| A rounded process, usually the protuberance on either side of the ankle joint. |
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| A strictly regulated scheme of diet, exercise, or other activity designed to achieve certain ends. |
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| A surface such that a straight line connecting any two of its points lies wholly in the surface. |
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| A term used in anatomical designation of a0 the anterior or ventral aspect of the head, forehead to chin inclusive and b0 a specific surface of a body structure, part, or organ; the expression or appearance of the face. |
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| A translucent albuminoid substance, one of the products of amyloid degeneration; a substance composing the walls of hydatid cysts. |
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| A whorled arrangement, design, or pattern, as of muscle fibers, or of the ridges or hairs on the skin. |
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| Abnormality of development; in pathology, alteration in size, shape, and organization of adult cells. |
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| Abundance, pouring forth with great liberality. |
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| An adenoma in which there is cyst formation. |
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| An expression of courtesy; a flattering remark or to pay a compliment. |
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| An organized subdivision of a country's military forces. |
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| Any disease of the glands; the abnormal development or formation of gland tissue. |
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| Any muscle that flexes a joint. |
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| Any organic compound in which all or part of the carbon has been replaced by silicon. |
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| Approximation, as in the edges of a wound or fracture. |
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| Assistance; an assisting device, as a hearing aid, orthotic aid, or aid in transfers. |
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| Aware; mentally awake or alert. |
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| Being vexed or irritated. |
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| Capable of bringing about an effect; exerting positive influence; productive of results. |
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| Capacity to enter or approach; to get at. |
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| Centrifugal, conveying away from a center. |
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| Centripetal, conveying toward a center. |
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| Channel; a line of travel. |
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| Closure of a wound in the intestine; occlusion of the lumen of the intestine. |
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| Consciousness of the moral right and wrong of one's actions. |
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| Consisting of or composed of similar elements or ingredients; of a uniform quality throughout. |
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| Descriptive word for a liquid that is thick and slow-flowing. |
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| Direction of progress; sequence of events; a series of instruction periods; the ground or path over which something moves. |
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| Extended in a horizontal position. |
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| Free of extraneous matter; simple, uncomplicated; lacking beauty. |
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| Glassy and transparent, or nearly so. |
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| Gradual loss, decay, or diminution of bulk; damaged, defective, or superfluous material; refuse. |
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| Hard, like callus (adjective). |
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| Having a similarity of structure because of descent from a common ancestor. |
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| Having the form or nature of a bulb; bearing or arising from a bulb (adjective). |
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| Increase in the severity of a disease or any of its symptoms. |
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| Individually distinct, noncontinuous. |
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| Lack of nervous energy; removal of a nerve or section of a nerve. |
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| Lacking normal tone or strength. |
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| Leading or bringing in, especially for the first time; to put in. |
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| Like a raven's beak (the coracoid process of the scapula). |
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| Material used for coloring and staining as tests and as therapeutic agents in medicine. |
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| Not poisonous; not due to a poison. |
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| Not through the alimentary canal, but rather by injection through some other route, such as subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, etc. |
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| Of or pertaining to an acid; acid-forming. |
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| Of or pertaining to the face. |
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| Path, route; the path along which something moves, or the mark left by its movement. |
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| Pertaining to a fundus (the bottom or base of anything, usually the base of an organ.) |
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| Pertaining to an ostium ( a door or opening; used to designate an opening into a tubular organ or between two distinct cavities). |
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| Pertaining to atopy (a genetic predisposition toward the development of hypersensitivity reactions against common environmental antigens=allergies). |
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| Pertaining to one or more bronchi (a subdivision of any of the larger air passages of the lungs). |
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| Pertaining to one that begets offspring. |
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| Pertaining to or caused by fungus. |
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| Pertaining to or characterized by ascites; the effusion and accumulation of serous fluid in the abdominal cavity. |
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| Pertaining to or characterized by atrophy (wasting away; a diminution in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or part). |
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| Pertaining to or characterized by bullae (a large vesicle, more than 5 mm in circumference, containing serous or seropurulent fluid-also called a bleb or a blister). |
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| Pertaining to or characterized by displacement or malposition; located away from normal position; arising from abnormal site or tissue. |
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| Pertaining to or of the nature of feces. |
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| Pertaining to or of the venture of the fascia (a sheet or band of fibrous tissue such as lies deep to the skin or forms an investment for the muscles and various other organs of the body). |
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| Pertaining to or perceived by the ear. |
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| Pertaining to or resembling mucus; adjectival form of mucus. |
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| Pertaining to or resembling the gills of a fish and having reference to structures of the lateral neck. |
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| Pertaining to or towards the tongue. |
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| Pertaining to the cecum (any blind pouch or cul-de-sac, usually the first part of the large intestine). |
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| Pertaining to the fibula or to the outer side of the leg. |
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| Pertaining to the mind or chin. |
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| Pertaining to the mouth; taken through or applied in the mouth. |
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| Pertaining to the nails (fingernails and toenails). |
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| Pertaining to the omentum (a fold of peritoneum extending from the stomach to adjacent organ in the abdominal cavity). |
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| Pertaining to the perineum (the region between the thighs, bounded in the male by the scrotum and anus and in the female by the vulva and anus). |
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| Pertaining to the theca (an enclosing case or sheath-usually referring to the sac of the spine). The mass extended up to the thecal sac. |
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| Pertaining to the uncus (any hook-shaped structure; the medially curved anterior end of the parahippocampal gyrus). |
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| Referring to an artificial limb or other artificial structure in the body. |
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| Referring to in a casual or direct way. |
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| Relating to the principal artery of the neck. |
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| Relating to, arising from, or influencing feelings or emotions. |
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| Removing absorbed material by use of a solvent. |
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| Retention of urine in the bladder. |
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| Showing good judgment; capable of observing prudent silence. |
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| Situated or occurring near the ear, most commonly as in the parotid gland. |
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| Summit or top; the top or crown of the head. |
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| The act of extracting forcibly. |
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| The act of pouring over or through, especially the passage of fluid through the vessels of a specific organ. |
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| The act or process of inducing or causing to occur especially the production of anesthesia or unconsciousness by use of the appropriate agents; the appearance of an electric current cause of the presence of another electric current. |
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| The central part of anything. |
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| The distal portion of the small intestine, extending from the jejunum to the cecum. |
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| The distribution or supply of nerves to a part; the supply of nervous energy or of nerve stimulus sent to a part. |
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| The excision of an atheromatous plaque (from an artery). |
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| The excrement discharged from the intestines (poop). |
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| The expansive superior portion of the hip bone. |
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| The forcible tearing away of a body part by trauma or surgery. |
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| The formation of canals, natural or pathologic; the surgical establishment of canals for drainage. |
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| The free slime of the mucous membranes, composed of secretion of the glands, etc. |
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| The injection of a nutrient or medicinal liquid into the bowel; the introduction of barium directly into the small bowel through a nasogastric tube. |
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| The insertion of a cannula (a tube). The referred word is cannulation, but cannulization is used and acceptable. |
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| The involuntary discharge of urine after the age at which urinary control should have been achieved. |
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| The largest of the auditory ossicles, and the one attached to the membrana tympani. |
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| The lowermost part, or a structure by which something is firmly attached. |
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| The muscular organ that maintains the circulation of the blood (the heart). |
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| The operation of cutting into the mediastinum (the mass of tissues and organs separating the two pleural sacs). |
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| The operation of cutting through the midline of the sternum. |
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| The place where one lives. |
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| The plural form of the shortened word echocardiogram. |
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| The plural form of the word echo repetition of a sound or the reflection of ultrasonic, radio, and radar waves. |
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| The portion of the body between the thorax and the hips; a part resembling the human waist, especially in narrowness or central position. |
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| The process, function, or power of seeing. |
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| The prolongation and intensification of sound produced by the transmission of its vibrations to a cavity; a vocal sound as heard in auscultation. |
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| The region between the thighs. |
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| The serous membrane lining the abdominopelvic walls. |
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| The study of cells (their origin, structure, function, and pathology). |
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| The sum of knowledge regarding food, diet, and nutrition. |
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| The thin layer of grey matter lateral to the external capsule of the lentiform nucleus, separating the nucleus from he white substance of the insula. |
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| The thin, pigmented, vascular coat of the eye, furnishing blood to the retina and conducting arteries and nerves to the anterior structures. |
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| The thin, yellow, milky fluid secreted by the mammary gland shortly before and a few days after delivery of an infant. |
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| The transfer of disease from one organ or part to another not directly connected with it. (Usually referring to malignancy.) |
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| The wider part of the extremity of the shaft of a long bone, adjacent to the epiphyseal disk. |
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| Those who live in a place; physicians serving in residency. |
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| To be, go, or come ahead or in front of. |
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| To cause to come into being, to bring about, accomplish, execute (verb). Result, outcome, intent, fulfillment, influence, consequence (noun). |
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| To cause to enter drop by drop; to impart gradually. |
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| To establish in an indicated place, condition, or status; to set up for use or service. |
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| To gain possession of, or to acquire. |
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| To go on in an orderly way; continue. |
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| To produce an effect or change on or to exert an influence over (verb). |
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| To receive willingly; to agree to. |
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| To refer indirectly or by suggestion. |
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| To take out or leave out; not including; other than. |
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| Within the loculi (small space or cavity) of a structure. |
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| localized hyperplasia of the horny layer of the epidermis due to pressure or friction (noun). |
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